From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 21 13:31:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC6611B7C for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grossjoh@ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id WAA05338 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:31:03 +0100 (MET) Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id WAA03199; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:31:02 +0100 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: organization of own extensions to programs installed as ports? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Date: 21 Feb 1999 22:31:02 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070077 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.77) Emacs/20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I like the ports mechanism a lot, but it appears I don't really grok it just yet. Maybe you can give me a hand, please? A number of programs support user extensions. Emacs, for instance, has a site-lisp directory where one can put Emacs Lisp programs. Perl has a site_perl directory where one can install additional Perl modules. Now, some ports install stuff in these directories. For instance, ispell installs its ispell.el into the Emacs site-lisp directory. Suppose I wanted to install additional extensions, not provided as ports. If I install those in the directories mentioned above, chaos will quickly result: I can't tell the difference between files anymore which come from a port and which I installed myself. Besides, a port might overwrite one of the files I installed myself, or vice versa. What is the customary way to deal with this situation? tia, kai -- I like _b_o_t_h kinds of music. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message