From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 17 07:05:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26277 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26226 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:05:33 GMT (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.49]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA13304 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:42:42 +0500 Message-ID: <3536EAFC.794BDF32@asme.org> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:39:08 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Suggestions for the ports system... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, Known, as I am, for making occasional useless suggestions without being flamed ;-), I had two ideas after reading some posts in the FreeBSD lists. 1) The structure is /usr/ports/distfiles is too planar for my taste. People should use more the DIST_SUBDIR variable when many files come from the same site. Considering the great number of files in the collection that come from sunsite and other master sites, perhaps something like this on bsd.ports.mk would artificially enforce some order? DIST_SUBDIR ?= $(MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR) The result would not be perfect but it would be much better than now. 2) Some people would like to have all the packages installed on one subdirectory, and OpenBSD AFAIK installs all in /opt. I found a kit that would solve this problem without disrupting the FreeBSD order. I downloaded it and build it with a minor change, but it's beyond me to see how this could be integrated with the ports/package system. http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/depot/depot.html Ah..and it's not GPL'd :). enjoy, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message