Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:14:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 Message-ID: <200601252114.NAA78378@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20060125210817.GB27610@soaustin.net> from Mark Linimon at "Jan 25, 2006 03:08:17 pm"
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:22:37PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > There's no formal requirement listed in the porters handbook, which ports > > belong into which PREFIX. The current situation is, that most ports which > > depend upon (and use) X11 install into X11BASE. Some people interprete > > hier(8) as if those ports should be in LOCALBASE and only X11 itself is > > allowed to be in X11BASE, and some people think hier(8) tells the people to > > install ports which make use of X11 into X11BASE too. Currently we maintain > > a status quo in the ports collection (proceed with the current behavior to > > install ports which make active use of X11 into X11BASE). > > There's no requirement because we've not been able to get everyone to agree. > > The real solution is to make sure that ports will install to alternative > locations of LOCALBASE and X11BASE (a recent regression test exposed many > of the former). Once that's done, perhaps we can consider doing away > with the historical artifact of X11BASE forever. Ok, so the move of vmware3 from /usr/local to /usr/X11R6 was an arbitrary change made with no intent? If so could we please move it back as that kinda broke anyone doing updates.... since vmware well infact preserve prior settings in the config files. This move occured during the mega update to linux_base-8.8 i think. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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