Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:40:09 GMT From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/91213 Message-ID: <200601050840.k058e9B8090573@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/91213; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Subject: Re: ports/91213 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:31:29 -0800 --=-LioIpokvidL+j3N2nQVZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What I'm trying to fix is working with software outside of the ports tree. The presence of things like gnomehack (bsd.gnome.mk) suggest that we do really expect the ports tree to make software respect our hier(7), not upstream maintainers. So, to assist people like me who work on non-FreeBSD software on FreeBSD, it would be nice if we could let our tools also know about where non-ports software (like a CVS checkout of something) likes to install itself. I don't see how this would at all damage the ports system (assuming of course that you fix the bug in my patch where the 2nd path needs :=3D instead of =3D), but it would be one less thing to hand-configure on every FreeBSD system I touch just so I can build software. It wouldn't need to be documented in hier(7). It wouldn't affect requirements for software in the ports tree. --=20 Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org --=-LioIpokvidL+j3N2nQVZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDvNlhHUdvYGzw6vcRApldAJ9d4+nhnnviVMws/wjUmdlS9ZFSqQCgl3hw NEJjLOC4b69uJvgP3cCePnM= =XiPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LioIpokvidL+j3N2nQVZ--
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