Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:59:51 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /usr/local misuse (Was: Confusing error messages from shell image activation) Message-ID: <14898.36663.855320.410475@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net> References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <75248.976389688@verdi.nethelp.no> <20001209142430.B671@puck.firepipe.net>
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Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> types:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:21:28PM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > Agreed. It would be nice if FreeBSD could use the same system as NetBSD,
> > storing the packages/ports under /usr/pkg.
> That's why PREFIX exists.
I know. Unfortunately, support for PREFIX seems to draw more lip
service than actual service. I've urged a number of times that
portlint should test for this, or that the porters handbook should
include instructions for checking this (it's actually pretty easy),
all to no avail. Last time I checked, Perl modules installed by the
standard perl module installer always go to /usr/local. Other may go
to ${PREFIX}, but the Perl interpreter doesn't know to search there
for modules, so the port generally winds up broken anyway.
On the upside, I regularly pr (with patches as often as possible)
ports that aren't PREFIX-clean, and they do get fixed.
<mike
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