On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > > 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? > > It doesn't need any funding to fix this.
You're an idiot. Contrarily to what you think, doing so needs *testing* and a solid upgrade path. I've made enough passes of `trivial' changes through the ports tree to know that any such apparently simple change triggers issues (lots of them). Remember you're in a thread that praises OpenBSD stability ? Think about it. We do *not* want the standard location of the ports tree to be tweakable, because that means more bugs, and more breakage. So, moving things around to /usr/pkg ? Yeah, right... not that simple. It's a big change. Yeah, a simple change, in apparence, that requires lots of testing. That's the main reason we haven't done it. Try it, make a list of the issues of doing this (the *real* issues, think about the people who are going to want to update their machine), make a start at it. And then report back. If it doesn't require any funding, *you* can do it, so show it to us.
