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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:46:01 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Doug Poland <dpoland@execpc.com>
Cc:        ListServer FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Linux devtools... HELP!
Message-ID:  <20000420224601.A7923@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAKEHMDGAA.dpoland@execpc.com>; from dpoland@execpc.com on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 12:07:53PM -0500
References:  <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAKEHMDGAA.dpoland@execpc.com>

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Everything would probably get installed in subdirectories of
/compat/linux .  It wouldn't overwrite your system stuff. 

Doug Poland said on Apr 20, 2000 at 12:07:53:
> Gulp...
> 
> I just installed the package linux_devel-0.2.  I looked at the
> pkg/PLIST and saw hundreds of binaries that look like system
> files already installed.
> 
> Did I just screw myself?  Can I run pkg_delete?  What did I
> do?  The package description says, 
> 
>   "This is a binary port of the Linux development environment.  
>   It unpacks unpacks actual Linux binaries which run under 
>   the binary emulation."
> 
> Which is incredibly vague if this package replaced critical
> system files.
> 
> -- 
> Doug Poland
> dpoland@execpc.com 
> 
> 
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