From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 22:07:00 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 A462F16A4CE; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:07:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1D743D2F; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:07:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.105] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0IFD007LSC3MOB@connectmail.carleton.ca>; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: To: Jeremy Messenger Message-id: <426975C7.3030008@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-gb, en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Thunderbird/1.0 OMFG PANTS References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> cc: Danny Pansters cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@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 22:07:00 -0000 Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters 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. MPlayer doesn't need X. It can run just fine in an X-less environment. Same with SDL. Things that _require_ X live in /usr/X11R6. Except for KDE, which claims that they alone are interpreting hier(7) correctly and *every single other X app in the entire ports tree* is wrong. Also OOo, but those poor guys have enough to deal with without trying to force a nonstandard prefix. Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into unusual locations to prove a point. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx