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)" References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012091347030.88984-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14899.43958.622675.847234@guru.mired.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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