From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 19 09:16:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15163 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15131; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA05817; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609191607.JAA05817@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Julian Elischer , GNATS Management , freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:07:05 -0700 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 01:34:41 -0700 "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > I'm not sure I do. /opt and /usr/opt have very definite Sun-ish > connotations for me, given that Sun was the first I knew to use that > organizational hierarchy, and they used it for something rather > different than /usr/ports (similar, but still different). Hence, I > always preferred to just avoid any potential confusion by giving the > ports collection its own place to live. I considered but rejected > /opt and /usr/opt as candidates when I first wrote that file. Well, most NetBSD'ers I talked to objected to the name "ports", since in the NetBSD world, a "port" is then the kernel is made to run on a new platform :-) Hence the run-time decision in the Makefile ... FreeBSD can keep the name they like, and NetBSD can use the name that like.. Everyone's happy :-) Is that really the only sticking point in the changes being accepted? -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939