Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:56:09 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Jon Bailey <jonb@matchlogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/contrib -> /usr/src/gnu ? Message-ID: <19990223085608.A3768@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301977FAF@HOUSTON>; from Jon Bailey on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 12:25:33AM -0700 References: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301977FAF@HOUSTON>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 12:25:33AM -0700, Jon Bailey wrote: > Andreas, > I found your name listed as a package maintainer for one of the GNU > packages, which is why I picked you as a likely target to send the question > to. :) Ah ;-) > Still sounds like it might be sensible to keep packages "all in one place" > instead of under one directory, with pointers from its "old home" in another > directory... Now I don't understand what you mean. If you speak of packages, it's another story. Packages are the precompiled ports from the ports collection. Packages (from ports) are always installed separately from the base OS (i.e.: /usr/local=$PREFIX). Sometimes people want to test new software before they put it into the main OS. The ports collection helps here, since it installs into a separate directory hierarchie. If for example xntp stops being a "moving target", this means, being hacked heavily, then it would be the time, to upgrade it into the main source tree. Then I think it would be imported under /usr/contrib, and under /usr/src/gnu you'd only find the "bmaked" Makefiles. > Although how filesystems should be subdivided/sorted is > probably a topic of holy wars... :) Hmmm, functionality, philosophie ;-) But better, you sort it out a bit, than to have the binarie mess on a Linux system. I hate it, that there is no Basic Linux OS, which is the Basis of every Linux... Therefore they differ so much *shudder*. If I read job offers and they speak of, Linux knowledges, I wonder which one they mean .... Debian, SuSE, DLD, RedHead, Caldera, which differ heavily I think. Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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