From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 19:16:01 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 7555316A4CE; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9348243D45; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:16:00 +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 <20050423191558.FZCR11036.lakermmtao01.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:15:58 -0400 To: "Gary Kline" References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> <426975C7.3030008@FreeBSD.org> <20050423113852.2abf63d7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <426A8C87.2030502@FreeBSD.org> <20050423183131.GB98100@thought.org> Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:17:51 -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: <20050423183131.GB98100@thought.org> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Linux, build 1095) cc: danny@ricin.com cc: Adam Weinberger 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: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:16:01 -0000 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:31:31 -0500, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: >> Miguel Mendez wrote: >> >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 >> >Adam Weinberger wrote: >> > >> > >> >>Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but >> until >> >>then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into >> >>unusual locations to prove a point. >> > >> > >> >It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done >> >wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under >> >/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not >> >/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. >> > >> >Cheers, >> >> There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. >> But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it >> without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. >> > > One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or > /usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it > hardwired in 7-STABLE. We could just dump everything > into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc; If it happens FreeBSD do that, then FreeBSD is messy, Linux-ish and dead. :-P Cheers, Mezz > but it seems better to have a > place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc > and one and only one for everything else. > > gary -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org