From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 23 19:32:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA13982 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:32:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA13871 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:31:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA25472; Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:09:33 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601240339.OAA25472@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: WARNING: proposed change to samba port To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:09:33 +1030 (CST) Cc: marc@bowtie.nl, pst@shockwave.com, ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20552.822435971@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 23, 96 02:26:11 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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." [[