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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:58:19 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux_base Makefile 
Message-ID:  <20000218015819.25A8D1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>  of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:48:44 GMT." <38ACA4FC.583E94E9@cup.hp.com> 

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > 
> > 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.)
> 
> I don't think so, because AFAICT /compat is a link to /usr/compat by
> default (ie at install time).
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> This is already the case (again, AFAICT).

Yes, I have seen this on fresh installs.  /usr/compat seems to be the default
for new installs, but it hasn't always been that way and isn't required to be
like that.

Cheers,
-Peter



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