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Date:      Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:07:32 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Add usr/ports to BSD.usr.mtree
Message-ID:  <20050728160732.GA964@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050728155234.GA14880@frontfree.net>
References:  <20050728155234.GA14880@frontfree.net>

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:52:34PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> It seems that /usr/ports is not part of our BSD.usr.mtree tree.  Is
> there any reason for this?  I'm willing to add it to the mtree if
> nobody objects.

(a) Not everybody uses third party build infrastructures.
(b) Not everybody uses ports, some use pkgsrc.
(c) Why should ports be placed in /usr/ports? On my systems it normally
was under /home, allowing /usr to be much smaller.

Joerg



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