From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 15 10:31:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629F337B610; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id 5BAD79B05; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA1EBA11; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:31:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Chuck Rock Cc: andreas@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: webmin-0.80 In-Reply-To: <002601c006d9$ca9f6ed0$1805010a@epconline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Chuck Rock wrote: > I'm not the fastest gun in the west with FreeBSD, but why does the Webmin > port install it's working CGI files and such into a lib directory? > > I thought that directory was only for shared libraries? > a) static libs exist in lib/ also :) b) according to hier(7), libdata might be more appropriate (misc. utility data files); however, libdata does not exist for the /usr/local tree. c) share/ might be more appropriate also (for architecture-independent files) d) lib/ is where the author felt the files should go e) if you feel strongly against keeping the files in lib/, feel free to provide patches... ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message