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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 1996 02:01:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org (FreeBSD ports list)
Subject:   Re: imake & /usr/local
Message-ID:  <9601261001.AA00680@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199601092005.VAA00637@mordillo> from "Thomas Graichen" at Jan 9, 96 09:05:40 pm

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> change the imake stuff that way that all the imake'd ports go into
> /usr/local (or something other definable != /usr/X11R6) - so that you
> can reinstall the XFree86-distribution without thinking about all the
> installed ports there (same for all the config, lib, app-default-files
> of the ports too ...)

If we get to vote on this, I'd perfer X ports to go somewhere into local.

Also, what about /usr/local/man being /usr/local/share/man???  And better
attemps from porters to use /usr/local/etc or /usr/local/share vs.
/usr/local/lib for many files.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)



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