From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 17 17:46:18 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10EBB37B8D5; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:46:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04030; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002180157.RAA04030@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:41:27 EST." <200002180141.UAA83816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:57:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > < 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