From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 21:55:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2152316A4CE; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:55:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7069B43D45; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:55:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050422215504.CFQF11036.lakermmtao01.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:55:04 -0400 To: "Danny Pansters" References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:56:52 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Linux, build 1095) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:55:06 -0000 On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm >> sure >> > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file >> > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file >> > that tells the installer what to do post-install. >> >> At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. >> This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating >> symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* >> non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) >> >> gary >> > > No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link > to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life > because > of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now > we're > stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. I am hoping to get all GNOME stuff move in LOCALBASE someday when I have time. FreeBSD needs to remove one prefix either (LOCALBASE or X11BASE) to have a prefix. Cheers, Mezz > It's indeed bad IMHO, but I'm sure that everytime there were also good > reasons > to keep the /usr/X11R6 (for one thing: it's a dist). > > My EUR 0.02, > > Dan -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org