Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:45:59 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: lyndon@orthanc.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hystorical Reasons Message-ID: <199602161646.KAA21148@chrome.jdl.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 1996 22:54:15 PST." <199602160654.WAA01359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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So, like Satoshi Asami was saying to me just the other day: > Please open your eyes, this means an extra patch for almost every > single port in the tree. And a patch that has close to zero chance of > being accepted by the original source maintainers, as the rest of the > world is using /usr/local/man. > > This is an ENORMOUS amount of work. I'd rather us use that manpower > for something more constructive, than to tie our hands and make future > porting difficult. These basically echo my thoughts as I was reading the original post. I wonder, is the "heart" of this issue that people somehow want to use the *name* "/usr/local" as a site or machine specific place, and it's been comandeered by the masses already? Is it too weird to suggest we make up, say, /usr/site for truely site-local stuff? Feh. Not enough coffee yet, jdl
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