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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:42:02 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.
Message-ID:  <19991112164202.B69871@relay.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <14379.19900.963634.387520@guru.phone.net>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:14:04PM -0800, Mike Meyer wrote:
> ;->It belongs in /usr/local.
> 
> I don't agree. Things being maintainted and supported locally belong
> in /usr/local. Ports and packages come on the distribution, and you go
> back to the same channels for support as you do for core parts of that
> distribution.

I'll have to agree with you here.  I think it was a grave mistake for
FreeBSD to install packages into /usr/local/.  We should have used
/usr/pkg/ as NetBSD did.

As GCC maintainer, I will not add /usr/local/lib to the list of
automatically looked places in the base compiler.  For one it isn't
PREFIX clean.  
[ Please remember one can set PREFIX=/usr/pkg and build the Ports
Collection ]

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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