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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