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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:26:09 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar Makefile
Message-ID:  <1113924369.86153.1.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <86mzrvupx0.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200504171751.j3HHp5Wn094955@repoman.freebsd.org> <86pswsxlba.fsf@xps.des.no> <4263C23C.9060108@kientzle.com> <86mzrvupx0.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:33 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > gnu-auto* are for non-ports usage (only) - they don't mangle the
> > installed filenames to allow coexistence of multiple versions.
>=20
> It's slightly backwards, though.  What we should do is have
> devel/auto* for non-ports usage, installed in /usr/local/bin, and
> devel/ports-auto* for ports usage, installed out of the way.

Yes!

Working on 3rd party autotooled software outside of ports regularly is
miserable on FreeBSD.

--=20
Eric Anholt                                     eta@lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt@FreeBSD.org



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