From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 21:43:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F4916A4CE; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:43:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03C543D48; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:43:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=51412 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DP5vU-0000x9-Fl; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:43:04 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:53773 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DP5vT-0001Rr-8c; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:43:03 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:42:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> X-Face: "0Qv=,p:+]LvuqrtS4U\z3k"qN=.1]@=?utf-8?q?=258=3F=3BPoab=23v=27F=7E=0A=09!Wm=5Fe-=24=7EL=5D=3B?=>[c*L^Qoladj)x@mH}Bqz"vLO?Zdl}[@V@=?utf-8?q?U=3Fx3=23lI=3A=0A=09=24DN=7E!Hr?=@K`-mNv"zXm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:43:06 -0000 On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure > > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file > > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file > > that tells the installer what to do post-install. > > At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. > This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating > symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* > non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) > > gary > No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. It's indeed bad IMHO, but I'm sure that everytime there were also good reasons to keep the /usr/X11R6 (for one thing: it's a dist). My EUR 0.02, Dan