Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:58:51 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, phk@dk.tfs.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <199707280128.KAA02595@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <8229.870034696@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 27, 97 10:18:16 pm"
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > >> > >> I suspect that should be /usr/libdata/tcl/tclpkg.. /usr/lib/tclpkg is a > >> definite violation of the tree layout standards. > > Well, it is "libraries" and the default would have put them in /usr/lib, > which I though was too disgusting, but if there is concensus for another > location, we'll change it. I'm not religious. /usr/libdata is better, IMHO. > >Hmm.. That's not all of the problems, it's got hard coded references to > >/usr/local as well. There are not supposed to be any active references to > >/usr/local in the src tree. > > We have other similar /usr/local references in the tree. /etc/rc for > instance will go look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for shell scripts. Hmm. And I'd be asking for /usr/local/libdata/tcl/* as well. This is less than wonderful though, for obvious reasons. How hard would it be to have some configuration entity somewhere that pointed to the local "local" stuff, ie. have it runtime-configurable? > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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