Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:35:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk Message-ID: <199511181035.LAA20677@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511172226.JAA26103@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 18, 95 09:26:35 am
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > > mtree should be in /usr/bin (it's useful for managing your own trees) "system program, runnable by users" :-) > and absolute paths shouldn't be used except for security. That's somewhat impractical for ports. The absolute path names are a compromise (resulting from experience, they haven't been there in the first place). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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