Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:25:36 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org>, Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> 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: <op.ss1poy0z9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20050627201024.GA13404@soaustin.net> References: <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506251924.24269.lofi@freebsd.org> <42BDF3D9.6000803@magnesium.net> <20050627131305.GA5802@FreeBSD.org> <1119898902.24833.90.camel@leguin> <20050627201024.GA13404@soaustin.net>
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:10:24 -0500, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:01:42PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: >> * Do not put new ports in X11BASE if you can avoid it. >> * Move leaf ports to LOCALBASE if you can. > > Can anyone think of a good reason (other than the hard work that > will be involved) not to try to migrate towards this? There are some patches that is required to teach apps about two prefixes. If we move to a prefix and result all patches will be remove. Two prefixes cause more problems than solve. Ruby, Mono (monodoc and others) and some other apps still do not know about two prefixes and they need to be teach. Vanilla is better than patch (hack). Some Linux/Mono developers will not accept the patches. Also, it doesn't make any sense when many apps are also support with and without X, so LOCALBASE and X11BASE are out of question. Lesser headache on no more 'mkdir -p', '-L${X11BASE}/libs', plist stuff for LOCALBASE/X11BASE and etc. BTW: I think, FreeBSD is the only one OS that is doing two prefixes. Cheers, Mezz > mcl -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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