Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:23:42 +0100 (CET) From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lgk@BIK-GmbH.DE> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303090928.4234A-100000@eiche.bik-gmbh.de> In-Reply-To: <199803030755.XAA09887@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * > 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. > > Um, I haven't asked it to create a new partition or anything, just > asked that it put in the same place as /usr/local. Since /usr/X11R6 > and /usr/local are, by all accounts, very similar in nature, I think > this is just natural. > But that's probably the most useful. /usr/local is likely to require an entire disk (no matter how large :). The current scheme seperates the X stuff quite well from whatever resides in /usr/local. Particularly if a system gets more and more mature it is quite helpful not to depend on disassembling hotchpotch. If the /usr/local and the X tree don't get that merged, that they couldn't reside on different partitions, it's probably not really important whether the X partition is mounted on /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local/X11R6. But even the installation procedure for unexperienced syadmins should make the installer aware of the problem. And of course most newbies need advice how to keep a system reorganisable without a completely new installion. Bad initial disk layouts are probably most bothersome. Directory softlinks are in most cases quite soft solutions and should be used in a non-negligable number only by people, who've understood all options of find(1-) and similar programs as well as all related libc functions and system calls. (I've seen too many sysadmins, who don't have sufficient knowledge about state of the systems they have to manage - principii obsta. |-) Lars To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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