From owner-cvs-etc Sun Jul 27 23:06:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12176 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter.phk.freebsd.dk [195.8.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12166; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08944; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:02:14 +0200 (CEST) To: Michael Smith cc: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freebsd.org From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:58:51 +0930." <199707280128.KAA02595@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:02:14 +0200 Message-ID: <8942.870069734@critter.dk.tfs.com> Sender: owner-cvs-etc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Well, it is "libraries" and the default would have put them in /usr/lib, >> which I though was too disgusting, but if there is concensus for another >> location, we'll change it. I'm not religious. > >/usr/libdata is better, IMHO. ok. >> >Hmm.. That's not all of the problems, it's got hard coded references to >> >/usr/local as well. There are not supposed to be any active references to >> >/usr/local in the src tree. >> >> We have other similar /usr/local references in the tree. /etc/rc for >> instance will go look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for shell scripts. > >Hmm. And I'd be asking for /usr/local/libdata/tcl/* as well. This is >less than wonderful though, for obvious reasons. It searches the "system" location first... >How hard would it be to have some configuration entity somewhere that >pointed to the local "local" stuff, ie. have it runtime-configurable? No idea :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.