Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 02:59:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: paul@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependencies Message-ID: <2872.809776771@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:27:36 PDT." <199508300827.BAA17468@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> The problem with this approach is that it hard-codes the "local" tree > to /usr/local and the X tree to /usr/X11R6, which we are trying to > avoid. In fact, may I ask that people please stop imbeding @prefix commands at the top of their packing lists? It's simply not necessary now! Before: @prefix /usr/local bin/foo lib/foo After: bin/foo lib/foo The pkg_create command, which is pretty much ONLY run by the ports mechanism now (nobody in their right mind creates packages by hand - it's just too hard :) already gets the prefix passed in, and it's really easy to override that way. OK, OK, truth be told, the -p flag overrides the copy in the packing list *anyway* so I guess the @prefix is a no-op at best, but it's still redundant and we should probably just start removing them. Jordan
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