From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 10 08:02:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24555 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24545 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 08:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA09308 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:02:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA04108; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:01:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970810170138.SM15800@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:01:38 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /usr/dos for doscmd References: <199708101438.QAA12699@ocean.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Stesin on Aug 10, 1997 17:59:09 +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Stesin wrote: > > It might be nice to have a directory where doscmd can play around, > > and where you can also place stuff related to it (like maybe > > default config file?). Wouldn't /compat/dos work? Or > > /usr/local/lib/dos or something? > /usr/local/dos -- I vote for it.:) Errm, Mikael resent this to the list what he sent me privately... No, /usr/local is already reserved for the ports system. /compat perhaps not. I still vote for /usr/libdata/dos/. > > About relying on X11 being installed... Can't that be made checked > > at runtime? By using dlopen() instead of normal dependency, or > > so? > Nice idea. Did'ya ever try? I think that's gonna be hard if many symbols are being used. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)