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Date:      10 Dec 2000 12:12:59 -0500
From:      Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation
Message-ID:  <uoc66ksnqsk.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Mike Meyer's message of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:13:42 -0600 (CST)"
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Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:

> Whether or not it's part of FreeBSD is immaterial. It's part of the
> distribution that comes from FreeBSD, and is treated differentlyh from
> locally installed software (whether written locally or by a third
> party) in every case *except* where it installs - and that's only
> because it's installed in the wrong place.
> 
> In other words, "It's not part of FreeBSD" is a rationalization.

Your argument doesn't make much sense to me.

So if I compile sawfish myself I should install it in /usr/local, but if
I install a FreeBSD package for it, it should never go in /usr/local?

If I grab a sawfish FreeBSD package from the sawfish website, where
should that install? /usr/local? /opt? /usr/pkg?

Third party software is third party software, no matter who compiled
and packaged it.

If I install a package of third-party software, the end result should
be about the same as if I compiled and installed it by hand -- the
packaged software is a convenience, not a fundamentally different
entity.


--nat

-- 
nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs
magus@cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~magus/
there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead


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