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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:59:34 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, andreas@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: postgresql7 user message contains $PREFIX not /usr/local
Message-ID:  <397C2196.23289.11751B8F@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <397B781B.67FAC6DC@partitur.se>

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On 24 Jul 2000, at 0:56, Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed databases/postgresql7 and spotted the following
> > message:
> > 
> > To start PostgreSQL, run the startup script: $PREFIX/etc/rc.d/pgsql.sh
> > start ===>   Compressing manual pages for postgresql-7.0.2
> > 
> > To be nice to the user, who we all know doesn't know much, should we say
> > "/usr/local" instead of "$PREFIX"?
> 
> I guess, if the user is using a different prefix than
> /usr/local, the user knows more than the average, and will
> exchange /usr/local for their favourite prefix automatically in
> his/her mind while reading the message ;-)
> 
> You're probably right, putting /usr/local instead would
> probably confuse a smaller amount of users :)

Actually, I think it should say /usr/local/ only if that's what PREFIX 
evaluates to.  My initial thoughts were that the code was not correctly 
evaluating the $PREFIX variable.  Rather, the string "$PREFIX" was 
being printed instead of the value contained within $PREFIX.
--
Dan Langille  [I'm looking for more work]
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