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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:47:22 -0500
From:      dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
To:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Chris Faehl <cfaehl@cs.unm.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Division between /usr/local and everything else
Message-ID:  <34C561BA.D6D6F05F@scsn.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980120182007.2929D-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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Tom wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Chris Faehl wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >       I hope this isn't a FAQ that I'm missing somewhere - but it
> > would be very useful if *all* ports could be built into the /usr/local
> > hierarchy. Some packages (like exim) build into their own directory
> > (/usr/exim).
> 
>   No, Exim builds into /usr/local/*.  I'm looking the Makefile right now.
> 
> >       I would like to see some way of building EITHER in the default
> > location OR into the /usr/local hierarchy. The way it is now makes it
> ...
> 
>   Any port that doesn't build into /usr/local/ is broken.

There's a lot of broke ones then...  Half of them build into
/usr/X11R6 :-)



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