Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:56:52 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question Message-ID: <op.spnlw20h9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <AE4D469E6B141341B0344050@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com>
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> wrote: > 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. I am hoping to get all GNOME stuff move in LOCALBASE someday when I have time. FreeBSD needs to remove one prefix either (LOCALBASE or X11BASE) to have a prefix. Cheers, Mezz > 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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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