From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 4 6: 0:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7088E37B8A5 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 06:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12485; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:00:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:00:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Cc: R Joseph Wright , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail install locations In-Reply-To: <20000629124705.A210@Fedaykin.here> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: >On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:01:39AM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: >> I just installed qmail and the installation does not mesh with the >> rest of the system. For example, virtually everything goes under >> /var, even the executables. Being a port, I think it should not >> compete with the base system's space. >> >> Would anyone object to me tweaking it to go under /usr/local? Then I >> will fill out a PR. > > I do object. :) > When first writing the port, I considered attending hier(7). > However, that would make any qmail how-tos, recipes, scripts, ... >bogus. > I prefer to keep it this way, but I can write patches to have the >hier compliance be optional. > Committers? What do you think? How about following hier(7) and then installing a script that would create links in /var/qmail for the stuff "how-tos, recipes, scripts, ..." expects? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message