From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 22:32:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52427F7C; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308FFF2A; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AlfredMacbookAir.local (c-76-21-10-192.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.21.10.192]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C78C346DE1C; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54161791.508@mu.org> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:32:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ? References: <541367D1.8090002@FreeBSD.org> <54148F47.4030000@freebsd.org> <5415D3FC.4090509@mu.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:32:11 -0000 On 9/14/14, 3:22 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alfred Perlstein > wrote: > > > On 9/13/14, 11:39 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > Should really be a standalone package. > > > It's not exactly the same, but the lang/python2 port for example is a > meta-port which creates > symlinks such as /usr/local/bin/python2 -> python2.7. > > So the precedent of having a metaport which creates symlinks is there. > What folks have been complaining about in this thread is having symlinks > in the "base system directories" such as /bin. Why do you care what people are complaining about? Just make the port. :) > > My personal feeling is that we should look at this on a case-by-case > basis and allow these types > of ports, such as for /bin/bash but I'm sure others will disagree. We already allow such ports, for example a bunch of kmods install into /boot/kernel or /boot/modules. There are always exceptions to rules and for good reasons! find . -name pkg-plist | xargs grep -A 3 '^@cwd /$' > -- > Craig