Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:44:08 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add main.c Message-ID: <3AE75337.9315E77D@FreeBSD.org> References: <200104251911.f3PJBAv31212@freefall.freebsd.org> <37239858.A427E4FD@FreeBSD.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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