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Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ?
To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:36:37 +0000 (GMT)
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> figure out ... 1048 or so entries in the root of /opt.
> Even
> 	/opt/<category_name>/<port_name>/bin
> 			/lib
> 			/include
> 			/info
> 			/man
> 			/man/man1
> 			...
> 
> Would have the disadvantage to have many many bin subdirs and
> youd have to symlink everything into a global
> 	/opt/bin
> 	/opt/include
> 	/opt/lib
> 	/opt/man
> 	/opt/info

Hmm.  Not if you could support a "/opt/*/bin" or "/opt/*/*/bin" as
a path entry.  The idea being that the path hashing would expand
it internally for you.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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