On 2019/09/20 19:03, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > > Ports shouldn't use hardcoded /usr/local - the diff attached uses
> > > ${LOCALBASE}/${TRUEPREFIX} instead of /usr/local as appropriate,
> > > ${X11BASE} instead of /usr/X11R6, ${SYSCONFDIR} for the /etc files
> > > that comes from ports rather than base, and ${SUBST_CMD} in
> > > post-patch to substitute them for the correct paths.
> >
> > These patches have to go upstream, so those paths can't be dynamic.
> > I don't know what Landry's plan is for patching our port before they
> > are committed upstream, but once they are committed, I guess there
> > can be a post-patch step to turn them from hard-coded defaults to
> > ${LOCALBASE} and friends.
>
> After *all* these years, I don't understand why we are still pretending to be
> able to install stuff outside of /usr/local.
> It causes nothing but pain for porters for absolutely *0* benefit. Because
> it's
> a promise we cannot hold.
> Can't we just agree that VARBASE is /var, SYSCONFDIR is /etc and PREFIX is
> /usr/local once and for all?
>
> Sorry for hijacking this thread but we all know what all these SUBST_CMD do in
> real life: s,/usr/local,/usr/local,
>
> Time to be pragmatic...
I'm not opposed to that. But it should be a decision taken separately
rather than just not bothering to continue with the status quo in any
particular port update.
