From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 9:13: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 09:13:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (HURLAME.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BC137B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from magus@localhost) by hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBAHD0C23140; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:13:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from magus) Sender: magus@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu To: Mike Meyer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14899.43958.622675.847234@guru.mired.org> From: Nat Lanza Date: 10 Dec 2000 12:12:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:13:42 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer writes: > Whether or not it's part of FreeBSD is immaterial. It's part of the > distribution that comes from FreeBSD, and is treated differentlyh from > locally installed software (whether written locally or by a third > party) in every case *except* where it installs - and that's only > because it's installed in the wrong place. > > In other words, "It's not part of FreeBSD" is a rationalization. Your argument doesn't make much sense to me. So if I compile sawfish myself I should install it in /usr/local, but if I install a FreeBSD package for it, it should never go in /usr/local? If I grab a sawfish FreeBSD package from the sawfish website, where should that install? /usr/local? /opt? /usr/pkg? Third party software is third party software, no matter who compiled and packaged it. If I install a package of third-party software, the end result should be about the same as if I compiled and installed it by hand -- the packaged software is a convenience, not a fundamentally different entity. --nat -- nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/ there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message