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From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: a kvetch and a proposal
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:59:54 +0100 (MET)
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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