From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 17:56:19 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 4E21D16A4CE; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:56:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1281143D2D; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:56:19 +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 <0IFE00784V5TOB@connectmail.carleton.ca>; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:57:27 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <20050423113852.2abf63d7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> To: Miguel Mendez Message-id: <426A8C87.2030502@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> <426975C7.3030008@FreeBSD.org> <20050423113852.2abf63d7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> cc: mezz7@cox.net cc: danny@ricin.com 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: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:56:19 -0000 Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 > Adam Weinberger wrote: > > >>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. > > > It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > /usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > > Cheers, There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx