Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:29:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net>, Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ? Message-ID: <19970909102925.21559@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <16482.873765629@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 05:40:29PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908111815.19593A-100000@roguetrader.com> <16482.873765629@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 05:40:29PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Folks... I think it's time for a serious reality-check here. > > I don't think we're ever going to come to anything even *remotely* > resembling a concensus to change this, so I might respectfully suggest > that we simply kill the subject thread. /opt? Never. /local? You > gotta be kidding me. /usr/opt? Not on your life. > > See? I already hate the counter-proposals discussed so far myself, > and I'm hardly alone - there are many others here who would consider > me a real wimp for using such tame responses as "never" and "not on > your life" when they feel that "you've got to be f***ing kidding me! > No way in *hell*, man!" would be closer to the proper response to > these proposals so far. :-) > > /usr/local sucks too, sure, but at least we're used to it and people > have long experience now in administering that location. Nothing but > a painful and extended flame war would result from an actual change > here, and we'd be complete idiots to voluntarily provoke such an > outcome, so I really don't see the point in all this discussion about > it. Well, your reaction doesn't surprise me. I didn't really expect anything to change, either. But I'd hate to see us degenerate to the stage where we say "It's probably not going to happen, so let's not discuss it". Greg
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