Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:13:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not. Message-ID: <199911112213.RAA34417@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <14378.28246.28493.440833@guru.phone.net>
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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? > <mike --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- 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
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