Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:59:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, FreeBSD-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a kvetch and a proposal
Message-ID:  <199512271159.MAA26561@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199512222218.OAA02769@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Dec 22, 95 02:18:37 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Satoshi Asami wrote:
> 
> The ports don't like to go to two subtrees.  It's much easier to let
> the user look at /usr/local or /usr/X11R6 depending on where the
> binary is, than let an X port/package install something in /usr/local,
> since this tree can move around. ;)

You may not be aware of it, but thanks for the support. :-)

> The only thing we need to agree at this point is the name of the
> variable, we can include it to bsd.port.mk later if that is more
> desirable.  Is NOPORTDOCS ok for everyone?

I'd prefer it in /etc/make.conf, like NOMANCOMPRESS.

tg



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199512271159.MAA26561>