From owner-cvs-other Sat Apr 22 17:46:30 1995 Return-Path: cvs-other-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA08085 for cvs-other-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:46:30 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA08076 ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:46:25 -0700 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com (freefall.cdrom.com [192.216.222.4]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA17375; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:48:33 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA08070 ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:46:17 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-other@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 95 02:25:41 BST." <9504230125.AA16623@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 17:46:17 -0700 Message-ID: <8069.798597977@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: cvs-other-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > There is no problem if you have only one 'local' hierarchy, but what > if you want to install ports in several different locations? Of course > it is also possible to create a full tree for each location, but > creating 15-25 subdirectories when I only need /usr/foo/bin and > /usr/foo/man/man1 is not the best solution. I still don't think you understand. pkg_add will create the complete hierarchy for you if you install a port package. I fully expect some part of the generic install framework to do the same thing (since we're trying to keep the behavior of `pkg_add' and `make install' in sync here, right?). Sure, the user probably gets a lot more directories in /usr/foo than they expected, but that's the breaks. I think the gain is worth it. Jordan