From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 20 18:48:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03197 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03165 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmaddox@scsn.net) Received: from scsn.net ([208.133.153.70]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-41950U6000L1100S0) with ESMTP id AAA72; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:45:32 -0500 Message-ID: <34C561BA.D6D6F05F@scsn.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:47:22 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom CC: Chris Faehl , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Division between /usr/local and everything else References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Chris Faehl wrote: > > > Hi, > > I hope this isn't a FAQ that I'm missing somewhere - but it > > would be very useful if *all* ports could be built into the /usr/local > > hierarchy. Some packages (like exim) build into their own directory > > (/usr/exim). > > No, Exim builds into /usr/local/*. I'm looking the Makefile right now. > > > I would like to see some way of building EITHER in the default > > location OR into the /usr/local hierarchy. The way it is now makes it > ... > > Any port that doesn't build into /usr/local/ is broken. There's a lot of broke ones then... Half of them build into /usr/X11R6 :-)