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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:56:27 +0200
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        dan@freebsddiary.org
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, andreas@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: postgresql7 user message contains $PREFIX not /usr/local
Message-ID:  <397B781B.67FAC6DC@partitur.se>
References:  <39778CFF.4346.4BBDEDDB@localhost>

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Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> I just installed databases/postgresql7 and spotted the following
> message:
> 
> To start PostgreSQL, run the startup script: $PREFIX/etc/rc.d/pgsql.sh
> start ===>   Compressing manual pages for postgresql-7.0.2
> 
> To be nice to the user, who we all know doesn't know much, should we
> say "/usr/local" instead of "$PREFIX"?

I guess, if the user is using a different prefix than
/usr/local, the user knows more than the average, and will
exchange /usr/local for their favourite prefix automatically in
his/her mind while reading the message ;-)

You're probably right, putting /usr/local instead would
probably confuse a smaller amount of users :)

-- 
Palle


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