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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:00:07 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils/star Makefile ports/sysutils/star/patches patch-aa ports/sysutils/star/pkg PLIST 
Message-ID:  <199907200300.VAA83372@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:29:59 PDT." <19990719192959.A1044@dragon.nuxi.com> 
References:  <19990719192959.A1044@dragon.nuxi.com>  <199907192036.NAA06264@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <19990719192959.A1044@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
: WHY?!?!?  `tar' is install in /bin or /usr/bin on every Unix I know.
: `tar' is not only for system admin purposes.  Many users of `tar' do not
: have /foo/sbin in their path.  The manpage is still a .1, not a .8.
: Please consider if PREFIX/sbin is really the place for it.

I doubt that ${PREFIX}/sbin is the right place.  From hier(7)
     /sbin/   system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both
              single-user and multi-user environments

The S in sbin is for system or sysadmin, not for static.

Warner


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