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From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
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Subject: Re: /usr/ports question
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> From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:15:27 -0600
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> CC: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: /usr/ports question
> 
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> types:
> > > From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
> > > Bara Zani <bara_zani@yahoo.com> types:
> > > > Hi ,
> > > > I want to change the default install options of a certain port , how
> > > > can i do that ?
> > > If you're talking about location, use PREFIX. That's the top of the
> > > tree for installs, so binariexz go in $PREFIX/bin, man pages in
> > > $PREFIX/man, and so on.  However, changing the PREFIX for just one
> > > port isn't very safe - you really should make them *all* install with
> > > the same PREFIX, which you do by setting LOCALBASE in
> > > /etc/make.conf. Even then, some ports will break for one reason or
> > > another because they don't handle the change properly.
> >     This has always made me wonder: the install prefix of every port is 
> >     recorded in /var/db/pkg/<port-name>/+CONTENTS. Why isn't this
> >     information used?
> 
> It is used - how do you think pkg_delte finds the files to delete.
> 
> If there's some other use you meant, you should say what it is.
> 
> 	<mike

    What I meant was it surprises me (I must be missing something obvious) that
    the actual install prefixes of dependencies aren't taken from the +CONTENTS
    files. 

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