From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 14 14:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC88237B40A; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id F370C9B08; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:14:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:14:42 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, kde@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KDE installation directory. Message-ID: <20011014161442.E57251@squall.waterspout.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, kde@FreeBSD.org References: <20011015085817.B91332@jonc.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011015085817.B91332@jonc.itouch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:58:17AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Question: Why does KDE install into /usr/local, when the current > convention for all other X-related programs install into /usr/X11R6? Historical reasons. No technical reasons that I'm aware of. It really doesn't matter very much (although you could interpret hier(7) in various ways regarding this). > Also, when is the maintainer for kde expected to be back? I'd > thought there'd be more people for kde@freebsd.org rather than the current > one. Eh? I reply usually, but when it's a question like "When will KDE 2.2.1 be put in ports?" I'm going to ignore it. Admittedly, however, I'm slightly disappointed in other kde@ people because none of them seem to be replying to any of the kde@ mail. I was sort of hoping for more active members... *hint* *hint* -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message