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Date:      Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:26:46 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation)
Message-ID:  <20001209192646.B32252@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600
References:  <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <75248.976389688@verdi.nethelp.no> <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net> <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org>

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On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip
> service than actual service.

I disagree.  If one of the ports I maintain isn't PREFIX-clean, let me
know and it _will_ be fixed.  If you know others, please open a PR, let
me know and I'll assign it to the maintainer.

> or that the porters handbook should include instructions for checking
> this (it's actually pretty easy),

I always thought ``make PREFIX=/tmp/foo package'' is pretty obvious.. but
maybe not...

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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