From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 29 8:50: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from 200-191-154-113-as.acessonet.com.br (200-191-154-113-as.acessonet.com.br [200.191.154.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B143B37BED9 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lioux@uol.com.br) Received: (qmail 299 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Jun 2000 15:47:28 -0000 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:47:05 -0300 To: R Joseph Wright Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail install locations Message-ID: <20000629124705.A210@Fedaykin.here> References: <20000628000201.A3427@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000628000201.A3427@manatee.mammalia.org>; from rjoseph@mammalia.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:01:39AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:01:39AM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > I just installed qmail and the installation does not mesh with the > rest of the system. For example, virtually everything goes under > /var, even the executables. Being a port, I think it should not > compete with the base system's space. > > Would anyone object to me tweaking it to go under /usr/local? Then I > will fill out a PR. I do object. :) When first writing the port, I considered attending hier(7). However, that would make any qmail how-tos, recipes, scripts, ... bogus. I prefer to keep it this way, but I can write patches to have the hier compliance be optional. Committers? What do you think? Regards, Mario Ferreira To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message