On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:42:31 -0500, Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure
> they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file
> *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file
> that tells the installer what to do post-install.
At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*])
gary
No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link
to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because
of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're
stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes.
I am hoping to get all GNOME stuff move in LOCALBASE someday when I have time. FreeBSD needs to remove one prefix either (LOCALBASE or X11BASE) to have a prefix.
MPlayer doesn't need X. It can run just fine in an X-less environment. Same with SDL. Things that _require_ X live in /usr/X11R6. Except for KDE, which claims that they alone are interpreting hier(7) correctly and *every single other X app in the entire ports tree* is wrong. Also OOo, but those poor guys have enough to deal with without trying to force a nonstandard prefix.
Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into unusual locations to prove a point.
# Adam
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