From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 3 5: 5:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69B037B639 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 05:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-07.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.7]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA30672; Wed, 3 May 2000 08:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id EAA56932; Wed, 3 May 2000 04:59:01 -0700 (PDT) To: Ade Lovett Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports projects References: <200005021212.FAA46737@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000502163758.D88844@lovett.com> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 03 May 2000 04:57:22 -0700 In-Reply-To: Ade Lovett's message of "Tue, 2 May 2000 16:37:58 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Ade Lovett * 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