From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 6:33:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B285237B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:33:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA02124; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:33:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:33:37 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Nora Etukudo Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRKDIRPREFIX= (was: cd /usr/ports; make clean) Message-ID: <20001120093337.A2097@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200011192239.eAJMdDa90818@earth.backplane.com> <200011201349.eAKDnUR68625@cwsys.cwsent.com> <20001120151259.A23459@mail.nxe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001120151259.A23459@mail.nxe.de>; from nora@sappho-net.de on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:12:59PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You would surprise a *lot* of people doing this. I, for one, keep my work directories around for quite a while so I can check sources. A temp directory isn't really appropriate for that. It's easy enough to set yourself, though. On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:12:59PM +0100, Nora Etukudo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:48:57AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > This is an excellent idea. Could we make this the default? > > Me too! > > In the last years (exactly since 1994, where I converted from > UNIX System V to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1), I asked myself why isen't set > 'WRKDIRPREFIX=' to a tmp-directory by default? > > Liebe Grüße, Nora. > -- > nora@sappho-net.de http://www.sappho-net.de/ > Lesbian Computer Networks, Finland http://www.sappho.net/ > Web for Women (von Frauen, für Frauen) http://www.w4w.net/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message