Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:09:33 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: marc@bowtie.nl, pst@shockwave.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port Message-ID: <199601240339.OAA25472@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20552.822435971@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 23, 96 02:26:11 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > That's actually kind of a bogus argument. By those rights, we've have > everything from /usr/local/bash to /usr/local/emacs! Where does one draw > the line? By size? I don't think so since that would only lead to a > hodge-podge of ports with everyone's differing opinions of which ones were > "big enough to get their own hierarchy" /usr/local/packages/samba ln -s /usr/local/packages/samba/bin/smbd /usr/local/libexec/smbd ... I'd much prefer to have a farm of stale symlinks than try to pick the teeth of /usr/local. However, I'm aware we have a philosophy, so we might as well stick to it. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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