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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2005 03:56:19 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ...
Message-ID:  <20050626035619.5dc6de8c@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net>
References:  <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506251924.24269.lofi@freebsd.org> <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net>

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:16:25 -0700
Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> wrote:

> lofi -
> 
> You're kindof beating a dead horse here. Many, many people agree with 
> you here, and the topic received widespread support when I brought it up 
> at the BSCan ports BoF. The issue isn't whether stuff should go into 
> LOCALBASE instead of X11BASE, it's how to deploy a mass migration.
> 
> For the meantime, stuff should go into X11BASE, where everything X-based 
> except for KDE and OOo is, and should become part of the list of stuff 
> to be moved to LOCALBASE.

That's not enough. The new policy needs to be documented, so that
people which didn't attended the ports Bof (because they didn't visited
BSDCan) know about it.

Bye,
Alexander.

-- 
      ...and that is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.

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