From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 19: 7:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 EFC6737B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 85871 invoked by uid 100); 25 Apr 2001 23:20:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15079.23495.71385.589314@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:20:39 -0500 To: "Drew Derbyshire" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building /usr/X11R6/bin/ In-Reply-To: <52769342@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Derbyshire types: > > make world doesn't touch X. X is not part of the base system, it's 3rd > party software > Just as an aside ... > > I'm caught off guard because it is inconsistent with other third party > components. SENDMAIL and the various GNU tools are third-party as well, but > they go into the base system (as opposed to the /usr/local tree) using the > same system binary installation procedure as X binaries -- but these other > components are built with the base system. X is installed from the dist > files (as opposed to package files) and into the base system (as opposed to > the /usr/local/ tree), so one can reasonably expect them to be installed in > a like fashion. > > But of course, it's not. :-) Not all ports are installed in /usr/local. Many are installed in /usr/X11R6. That's the "other" major place for ports to go. X is the only port that's installed using the system binary installation method. This violation of POLA is a continuing source of problems and questions. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message