Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:46:20 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wine without X Message-ID: <b79ecaef0903281446h33ac09a8j4b39b34ba14bef98@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18894.4820.862743.914129@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <49CB957F.30807@waywood.co.uk> <F66E1C2954CA15ADC71114F7@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <49CCE5D3.6020900@waywood.co.uk> <200903281252.05083.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <18894.4820.862743.914129@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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2009/3/28 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>: > > Mel Flynn writes: > >> =A0> Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I >> =A0> =A0can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible >> =A0> =A0for one reason oranother, place to download application source t= o? >> >> =A0Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or >> =A0~/svn, where src are the tarballs + their extracted source and >> =A0cvs/svn checkouts and/or exports. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I have never done this, but if I were running a private po= rts > tree I would be tempted to root it (if not on a separate partition) > at "/usr/priv_ports" or something similar and have the structure > minic /usr/ports whereever possible. =A0The name would then be > semi-intuitive, and a simple change of a few environment variables > (perhaps in the login file of an account dedicated to working on > those ports) would be all it took to change the framework. > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Robert Huf= f > I'm always inclined to use --PREFIX=3D/sw/local/ when compiling; I'm used to Fink on my Mac, so /sw is a nice directory for that. Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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