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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... 
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Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:15:04 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Actually, it would be nice if the same could be done for /usr/src...
> As it is, there is no obvious way to say ``please put my sources on
> /x''.
> 
> I'd like an option somewhere in the installation procedure to create
> symbolic links for:

Well, more to the point - you want a way for any chosen distribution
(or distribution subset) to come from an arbitrary media and go to an
arbitrary destination.  This would have actually been trivial to do if
I had written the distribution handling code in sysinstall with
anything even remotely approximating good engineering techniques, but
it's no use crying over spilled milk. :-)

It will be handled much more nicely with revision II of all this stuff
(and yes I hope to release it in skeletal form fairly soon, at least
enough to install a bindist and show off the new design).

					Jordan