From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 18 15:03:54 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA20427 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:03:54 -0700 Received: from nietzsche (annex1s23.urc.tue.nl [131.155.12.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA20421 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 15:03:50 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA16150; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:45:31 +0100 Message-Id: <199504181945.UAA16150@nietzsche> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), Travis L Priest , branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov, Tad Guy Subject: Re: Ports hackers wanted! (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:45:31 +0100 From: "wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl" Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ a lot of stuff about new package scheme deleted ] > 4 WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF USING THESE 'STANDARDS' > > This has turned out to have more advantages than we originally > anticipated. I'll enumerate: > > * A package is now a well-formed collection of files under a common > directory (/usr/local/pkg-rev). > > * You no longer have files belonging to one package in directories > where the vendor OS is installed, so it is less likely to be deleted > or modified when you perform an OS upgrade. In light of this, I would like to see our X-packages go into a seperate /usr/local/X11 tree. I don't want to reinstall all X-packages when I upgrade my /usr/X11R6 tree, everytime a new XFree86. I have been running this way for some time now, and I can even have the applications defaults files in the /usr/local/X11 tree by setting an environment variable: XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/local/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults This way all files for an X-package can go into the seperate tree. If we can't provide an upgrade-kit from version to version we could at least try to make it as easy as possible. Marc. Marc van Kempen wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me.