From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 6 14:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flux.ptc.spbu.ru (flux.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1EF37B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from snark.ptc.spbu.ru (snark.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.131]) by flux.ptc.spbu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/cf-1.0.rbl) with ESMTP id BAA27479 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:39:07 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from uwe@localhost) by snark.ptc.spbu.ru (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id BAA01013 for ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:39:06 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:39:05 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207013905.A1007@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Mail-Followup-To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Are there any plans to fix XFree86-4 to *not* install stuff in /etc? A well behaving package should never install anything outside prefix, especially to /etc. It's especially weird to see symlinks from /usr/X11R6/... to /etc. It's an important package and it makes me nervous to see how it violates porters-handbook. SY, Uwe -- uwe@ptc.spbu.ru | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message