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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:23:24 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        nora@sappho-net.de (Nora Etukudo)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WRKDIRPREFIX= (was: cd /usr/ports; make clean)
Message-ID:  <200011210423.VAA07756@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001120151259.A23459@mail.nxe.de> from Nora Etukudo at "Nov 20, 0 03:12:59 pm"

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As I recall, Nora Etukudo wrote:
> In the last years (exactly since 1994, where I converted from
> UNIX System V to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1), I asked myself why isen't set
> 'WRKDIRPREFIX=' to a tmp-directory by default?

Because some of us like to keep the end product of a build around,
in case we want/need to tweak the source and rebuild.

	-crl
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