From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 29 17:54:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17614 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-116.fwi.com [209.84.172.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17477 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: from emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us [10.23.42.2]) by catastrophe.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14077; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:53:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01978; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:53:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/7111: new port: txt2html-1.25 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 29 Jun 1998 19:53:51 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:26:53 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <86hg134sm8.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.20/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Vanderhoek writes: > > The do-configure target is probably gratuitous; I doubt that anyone > > would ever want to install this somewhere other than /usr/local. > > No, please support installations to other than /usr/local/. > > Consider, eg. someone installing the port on a shell machine as a > non-priv user. I hadn't really thought of that. In this case it's an optional data file that has the hard coded path and the script also looks for a file in ${HOME}, so they could get by. The method I used just seemed to be somewhat heavy handed. -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message