Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:45:22 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Message-ID: <19991108114522.D78826@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991108121237.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>; from andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM on Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:12:37PM -0500 References: <3826D53A.D584DCED@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <XFMail.991108121237.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Is it not possible to have a QTDIR that is compliant with hier(7)? Can I
> suggest ${X11BASE}/qt & ${X11BASE}/qt2 ? That will make it independent of this
> particular hier(7) section:
That's potentially a huge can of worms you're opening there, though.
Once we have this precedent, one can easily envisage a situation where
we have ${X11BASE}/kde, ${X11BASE}/gnome etc.. etc.. potentially
leading to much spammage of the third level directories under X11BASE
(and, indeed, LOCALBASE).
> [snip]
>
> ..where under Pedro's suggestion (lib/) it would be against hier. But we can
> simply create a new directory under X11R6, just like WindowMaker does (in this
> particular case, ${X11BASE}/GNUstep).
IMHO, WindowMaker is broken in this respect. It should be using
something like ${X11BASE}/share/GNUstep.
Similarly with LessTif banging a whole load of stuff under ${X11BASE}/LessTif
It makes things look very messy and disorganised.
Granted, it's a considerable pain for porters to hack stuff around to
fit in with hier(7) [at a guess, a good 75% of the patches for the GNOME
ports are exactly of this type], but it can (and should) be done.
One of the many wonderful things about *BSD is hier(7) -- it makes
things very easy to find -- please let's not destroy this.
Hmm.. maybe some patches to portlint for hier(7) violations (against
the PLIST) are in order. Kinda like a "virtual Bruce" for ports..
-aDe
--
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
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