Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:34:01 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: zmetzing@warthog.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Constructive criticism .. Message-ID: <20030117113401.09809d25.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030116220956.GA42848@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030116143205.A3959@mercury.warthog.com> <20030116220956.GA42848@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 23:09:56 +0100
Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:32:05PM -0600, Zach Metzinger wrote:
> > Quite a few administrators (myself included) who deal with other OSen
> > such as Solaris hate to see a package modify the base software install
> > trees of the systems we run. Things that we add go into /usr/local/bin
> > and never into /usr/bin or /usr/{X11R6,openwin}/bin. I realize that
> > the package system makes this less of a problem as it keeps track of
> > where things went, but it's still a very "tree-instead-of-the-forest"
> > attitude.
Additionally to what Stijn already said:
/usr/X11R6 isn't a base system directory. It is like /usr/local, with
the difference, that everything in /usr/X11R6 depends on X11 and
everything in /usr/local doesn't depend on X11. But there may be ports
which don't fit into this scheme (it may be a bug then and needs a
bugreport).
> > I realize that some packages are difficult to coerce into this install
> > scheme (with perl being a major offender), but it can be done.
What's wrong with perl, last time I checked it installed into /usr/local
just fine? You should CC tobez@FreeBSD.org in the answer, he is the
maintainer of the perl port.
Bye,
Alexander.
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