From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 18:30:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4F016A4CE; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:30:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EA143D1D; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:30:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3NIVX1h098238; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j3NIVX1F098237; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) From: Gary Kline Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:31:31 -0700 To: Adam Weinberger Message-ID: <20050423183131.GB98100@thought.org> References: <20050420155742.GA83965@thought.org> <20050422182127.GA89355@thought.org> <200504222342.32068.danny@ricin.com> <426975C7.3030008@FreeBSD.org> <20050423113852.2abf63d7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <426A8C87.2030502@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <426A8C87.2030502@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18++ years of service to the Unix community cc: mezz7@cox.net cc: danny@ricin.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mplayer/mplayer-plugin question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:30:57 -0000 On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Miguel Mendez wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400 > >Adam Weinberger wrote: > > > > > >>Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but until > >>then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into > >>unusual locations to prove a point. > > > > > >It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done > >wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under > >/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not > >/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local. > > > >Cheers, > > There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned. > But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it > without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users. > One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or /usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it hardwired in 7-STABLE. We could just dump everything into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc; but it seems better to have a place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc and one and only one for everything else. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix