Date: 16 Apr 2000 04:55:44 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, chris@calldei.com, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tcsh - Imported sources Message-ID: <vqc3dom8dkv.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:47:31 %2B0200" References: <vqcbt3a8fkm.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200004161147.NAA76123@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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* From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
* This, then is a shortcoming of the ports system; we need at least two
It is not a shortcoming of the system; it is a policy decision. We
don't want people upgrading their systems and losing packages
installed in /bin because they only backed up /etc and
/usr/{local,X11R6}. (It's assumed that people using ports have a
little more clue than those who only use packages, that's why I don't
see a problem with such a thing being a port.)
If we are going to decide to allow ports/packages for things like the
following, it is fine by me.
* 1) statically linked and installed in (say) /local/{bin|sbin} (which is
* in the root filesystem).
*
* 2) kernel modules.
Satoshi
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