From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 12:23: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 12:23:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9E4537B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9144 invoked by uid 100); 10 Dec 2000 20:23:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14899.58919.423410.320116@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 14:23:03 -0600 (CST) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation In-Reply-To: <20001210114230.E80274@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20001210101012.A1488@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20001210114230.E80274@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien types: > This control is part of why it would be nice to have /usr/pkg separate > from /usr/local. I've given up on FreeBSD and had to create my own > /usr/treats to hold what should have been in /usr/local if the FreeBSD > Packages hadn't polluted it. I went the other way, because "that's what PREFIX is for". I figured there would be less pain involved in moving a system designed to be moved than in moving random software that may or may not be so designed. After having done so for a while, it's not at all clear that was a correct decision. That this is the case says a lot about the implementation of that design, none of it good.