From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 11 14:14:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D19414E28 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:14:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA34417; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:13:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199911112213.RAA34417@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14378.28246.28493.440833@guru.phone.net> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:13:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote: > I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages collection > installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place for > things that I maintain, instead of came with FreeBSD. Putting > everything in /usr is one such solution. /opt is another (but having > everything have it's own hierarchy pretty much sucks). Try maintaining a lab of 40-80 identical machines. Then imagine distributing /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 via NFS. Then you only have to install the package on one machine to install it everywhere. That doesn't work when installed under /usr. Are you enlightened yet? > -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message