From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 18 03:25:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA15295 for current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:25:29 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA15287 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 03:25:16 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA02412 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 12:24:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA14167 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 12:24:40 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA20677 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:35:38 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511181035.LAA20677@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:35:37 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511172226.JAA26103@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 18, 95 09:26:35 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 516 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)