On Feb 17, 2008 9:10 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Who said, it must be about new features? There is an issue, about which I
> wrote already - OK, once more:
>
>   I noticed, that default path, where software from binary pkg and "ports"
>   gets unpacked, is /usr/local hierarchy - unfortunately, it's also the
>   "traditional" default of every individual source *.tar.gz package - such
>   way the software ported to OpenBSD gets mixed with any other package,
>   which I had installed. Wouldn't be reasonable to create new hierarchy,
>   especially for the "native" OpenBSD software (from binary packages and
>   ports) - I mean: something like /usr/pkg in NetBSD?

Does the -B option to pkg_add do exactly this?  Or YOU could do the
equivalent and tell ./configure to install to a different base
directory.  This doesn't need any funding either.

--david

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