On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:46:46PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Fixing broken things is a good thing. Your argument about moving it > from /usr/local to show how broken is a good test procedure, but turning > it into policy is something completely different. Yes changing the policy is something different. IMHO, it will never been done -- way too much momentum behind it now. BUT, I wish people would understand the basic premise and stop bringing up what this and that used to 10 years ago. People doing that are *missing* the issue. NetBSD got it right. BSDi(BSD/OS) got it right. > I think the 'tradition' of FreeBSD installing packages in /usr/local is > enough to leave things the way they are, especially since non-broken > packages allow you to install it somewhere else on *your* system. Packages (ie, those Satoshi builds) no. Building the port yourself, yes. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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- Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse) David O'Brien
- Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse) Mike Meyer
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