Date: 03 May 2000 04:57:22 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports projects Message-ID: <vqcem7j978c.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Ade Lovett's message of "Tue, 2 May 2000 16:37:58 -0500" References: <200005021212.FAA46737@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000502163758.D88844@lovett.com>
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* From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> * On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:12:53AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote: * > @ PREFIX-cleanness (status: (slowly) in progress) * > There are PREFIX-clean fixes committed every day, but I'd like to * > make a master list to help people identify which ports are * > culprits. * * Ok. #1 is GNOME. #2 is KDE. But let me expand. * * (1) GNOME expects everything to be rooted in one place, be it * /usr, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, /opt/gnome, /dev/null.. No, that's not a problem. By "PREFIX-clean", I didn't necessarily mean that we are going to require ports to have PREFIX at an arbitrary location. With many programs written in a way that they expect a group of files together in some hierarchy, it will be insane for us to try to go modify them all. What I want to have is an ability to change LOCALBASE and X11BASE for the whole set of ports installed in a machine. This will help calm down people who keep yelling "give me back my /usr/local!" and also allow us to do the per-port stowage thing by using some symlink tricks. I'll think about it some more and elaborate later. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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