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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:44:08 +0300
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Organization: Vega International Capital
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To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
>
> > obrien      2001/04/25 12:11:09 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c
> >   Log:
> >   Add /usr/X11R6/bin to the exported PATH.  If /usr/local/bin is there,
> >   /usr/X11R6/bin should be there.  This helps all the ports that need to
> >   run `mkfontdir' and error out as many port maintainers do not realize
> >   `mkfontdir' isn't in the path.
>
> Please note that /usr/local/bin was added into exported PATH for entirely
> different purposes. In some cases it might be necessary for tar(1) to find
> bzip2(1) command when working with bzip2-compressed packages. IMO, addition
> of the /usr/X11R6/bin into there serves no useful purpose, and could be ever
> harmful as it will encourage bad porting practices. It would be better to
> fix the real source of the problem, especially considering that the not
> PATH-clean ports could be easily identified by greping PLISTS in the ports
> collection using standard tools.

OOPS, sorry for duplicated message. Somehow my computer clock got delayed by 2
years (sic!), so I did not see this message neither at the top of my sent folder
nor on the top of cvs-all, thereby I erroneously concluded that I have forgot to
send the first message.

-Maxim


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