From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 9 11:59:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 11:59:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30A0837B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53610 invoked by uid 100); 9 Dec 2000 19:59:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:59:51 -0600 (CST) To: Will Andrews Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation) In-Reply-To: <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net> References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <75248.976389688@verdi.nethelp.no> <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews types: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:21:28PM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Agreed. It would be nice if FreeBSD could use the same system as NetBSD, > > storing the packages/ports under /usr/pkg. > That's why PREFIX exists. I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip service than actual service. I've urged a number of times that portlint should test for this, or that the porters handbook should include instructions for checking this (it's actually pretty easy), all to no avail. Last time I checked, Perl modules installed by the standard perl module installer always go to /usr/local. Other may go to ${PREFIX}, but the Perl interpreter doesn't know to search there for modules, so the port generally winds up broken anyway. On the upside, I regularly pr (with patches as often as possible) ports that aren't PREFIX-clean, and they do get fixed. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message