Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:33:37 -0500 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Nora Etukudo <nora@sappho-net.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRKDIRPREFIX= (was: cd /usr/ports; make clean) Message-ID: <20001120093337.A2097@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20001120151259.A23459@mail.nxe.de>; from nora@sappho-net.de on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:12:59PM %2B0100 References: <200011192239.eAJMdDa90818@earth.backplane.com> <200011201349.eAKDnUR68625@cwsys.cwsent.com> <20001120151259.A23459@mail.nxe.de>
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You would surprise a *lot* of people doing this. I, for one, keep my work directories around for quite a while so I can check sources. A temp directory isn't really appropriate for that. It's easy enough to set yourself, though. On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 03:12:59PM +0100, Nora Etukudo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:48:57AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > This is an excellent idea. Could we make this the default? > > Me too! > > In the last years (exactly since 1994, where I converted from > UNIX System V to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1), I asked myself why isen't set > 'WRKDIRPREFIX=' to a tmp-directory by default? > > Liebe Grüße, Nora. > -- > nora@sappho-net.de http://www.sappho-net.de/ > Lesbian Computer Networks, Finland http://www.sappho.net/ > Web for Women (von Frauen, für Frauen) http://www.w4w.net/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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