Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:57:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile Message-ID: <200002180157.RAA04030@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:41:27 EST." <200002180141.UAA83816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:34:42 +0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said: > > > Exactly, on my boxes I have /compat -> /home/compat without any /usr/compat > > existing at all. > > The difficulty, if I understand the context at all, is: what happens > when a new user installs emulator ports from sysinstall? (I can tell > you the answer without even trying: it falls over after she fills up > the root partition.) > > So, while I agree that David's solution is not the correct one, I > would also suggest that something needs to be done to solve the > problem. (I.e., we should install a /compat symlink to *somewhere* by > default.) ... and as I've already pointed out to David, that probably needs to be $PREFIX, since it's not really correct to put it anywhere else. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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