From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 20:20:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDEA16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:20:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA5543D46 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:20:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9BKKZD8037781; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j9BKKZEq037780; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:20:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Andrew P." Message-ID: <20051011202035.GA37746@thought.org> References: <20051011052328.GA22695@thought.org> <20051011161003.GA26236@thought.org> <20051011171845.GC26236@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: AaaarrrGGGH. linuxpluginrapper and linux-mozilla. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:20:40 -0000 On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:55:02PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/11/05, Gary Kline wrote: > > kldstat says that I have the linux stuff builtin. Thanks > > for your help; I'm de-/re-installing linux_base-8. Should > > be interesting. > > > > Shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. > > > > > The default of having these compat files installed in /usr > > rather than in /usr/local should probably be re-thought. > > I look for (most) ports in /usr/local. [A lot of the GUI > > suite are in /usr/X11R6/* tho.] hAving things symlinked > > shouldn't use up too many inodes. > > > > > > Maybe you should reread hier(7) manpage. Personally > I honestly think that FreeBSD's directory layout is the > most carefully thought through one of all. You can't > symlink binary files from /usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux > /usr/X11R6, because they are in different binary formats. I would ln -s /compat/linux /usr/local so that people whp expect "ports" to install in /usr/local find the linux stuff there. Same thing for /usr/X11R6/* to /usr/local/*. The latter was dicusses ery brieflly several weeks ago. .... > > Also, please note that /usr/compat is just a temporary > solution, which exists until everybody recognizes the > total superiority of FreeBSD to other systems. 6.0 > is starting the countdown towards FreeBSD 6.6.6, > which will conquer the world :-) > AMEN, brother!! (Wasn't 666 found to really be 626?) Oh, whatever.... -g -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix