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Date:      Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:10:45 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ...
Message-ID:  <20050627171045.GD55113@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050627131305.GA5802@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506251924.24269.lofi@freebsd.org> <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net> <20050627131305.GA5802@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:13:05PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> I tend to agree.  FreeBSD has a long history of abusing both X11BASE and
> LOCALBASE, FWIW.  Pure X11R6 stuff (which is a lot of bits and files)
> should go under X11BASE (that is, XFree86/X.Org distibution files + some
> stuff like GLUT, nvidia's, etc).  Everything else should go to PKGBASE,

Amen!!  I so wish many years ago when we hit 300 ports and seemed to hard
to do, that we moved out of /usr/local.  To me we abuse that much worse
than /usr/X11R6.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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