From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 00:49:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01404 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:49:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01318; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:49:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25097; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:38:36 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id JAA26575; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:57:47 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id JAA22686; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:48:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19980303094806.16915@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:48:06 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Mike Smith Cc: Satoshi Asami , jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff References: <199803021952.LAA26193@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 08:44:13PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386 Organization: PROSA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith writes: > > > > Actually, if you can do something like "if /usr/local is a separate > > filesystem from /usr or a symlink to a directory in a separate > > filesystem from /usr, then make /usr/X11R6 a symlink into > > /usr/local/X11R6", that will be great, but that's probably asking too > > much. :) > > It's quite achievable; the question is (as Jordan asked) whether it's > going to surprise people that *expect* it to be in /usr. IMHO, not if you _ask_ the user before you proceed, as in: Choices: 1. Auto size /usr ? 2. install in other partition and symlink ? -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- «Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?» - S. Kelly Bootle, ("MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message