Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:13:58 -0300 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@uol.com.br> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PREFIX question Message-ID: <20000617221358.A62250@Fedaykin.here> In-Reply-To: <20000617135244.B27342@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:52:44PM -0400 References: <20000617142613.A10384@Fedaykin.here> <20000617135244.B27342@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:52:44PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:26:13PM -0300, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> > etc/clockspeed/adjust (pipe)
> > etc/clockspeed/atto
> > etc/clockspeed/atto.tmp
> >
> > I was just wondering... shouldnŽt I crete them at
> > /var/clockspeed?
>
> Well, there are some ports that break PREFIX-clean rules and install
> directly in /var.. but it is possible to install to ${PREFIX}/var too.
>
> I'm not sure how most people would react to this, but I've always
> thought we should have ${PREFIX}/var pointing to /var/local or something
> like that, so we can keep PREFIX-cleanness without messing up the
> filesystem too much.
IŽll second that.
Or, some ${VARPREFIX} thing.
At least, we would have default PREFIXES for our do-install targets
and pkg/PLIST.
Regards,
Mario Ferreira
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