Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:20:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AaaarrrGGGH. linuxpluginrapper and linux-mozilla. Message-ID: <20051011202035.GA37746@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510111055u1b6b1870s9c3b818dc35833a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051011052328.GA22695@thought.org> <cb5206420510110222w14570bfdi2b91e71899c8e3fa@mail.gmail.com> <20051011161003.GA26236@thought.org> <cb5206420510110952k612885bfk2d63604ca33e9713@mail.gmail.com> <20051011171845.GC26236@thought.org> <cb5206420510111055u1b6b1870s9c3b818dc35833a8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:55:02PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/11/05, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > kldstat says that I have the linux stuff builtin. Thanks > > for your help; I'm de-/re-installing linux_base-8. Should > > be interesting. > > > > Shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. > > > <SOAPBOX> > > The default of having these compat files installed in /usr > > rather than in /usr/local should probably be re-thought. > > I look for (most) ports in /usr/local. [A lot of the GUI > > suite are in /usr/X11R6/* tho.] hAving things symlinked > > shouldn't use up too many inodes. > > </SOAPBOX> > > > > Maybe you should reread hier(7) manpage. Personally > I honestly think that FreeBSD's directory layout is the > most carefully thought through one of all. You can't > symlink binary files from /usr/X11R6 to /compat/linux > /usr/X11R6, because they are in different binary formats. I would ln -s /compat/linux /usr/local so that people whp expect "ports" to install in /usr/local find the linux stuff there. Same thing for /usr/X11R6/* to /usr/local/*. The latter was dicusses ery brieflly several weeks ago. .... > > Also, please note that /usr/compat is just a temporary > solution, which exists until everybody recognizes the > total superiority of FreeBSD to other systems. 6.0 > is starting the countdown towards FreeBSD 6.6.6, > which will conquer the world :-) > AMEN, brother!! (Wasn't 666 found to really be 626?) Oh, whatever.... -g -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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