cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ...

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Sunday, 26. June 2005 17:16, you wrote:

> > > The X11R6 distribution contains servers, utilities and more (libs/data
> > > files/...). Specifying them and then adding "local packages/ports"
> > > suggest to me, that not only binaries which come with the X11R6
> > > distribution are allowed to reside here.
> >
> > PLEASE STOP being silly for the sake of argument!
>
> This is how I read it. Really. I'm honest.

Okay. But even if I read it your way, i.e. each line by itself, not caring 
about the context of the parent directory, your change still violates 
hier(7):

               X11R6/    X11R6 distribution executables, libraries, etc
                          (optional).
                          bin/      X11R6 binaries (servers, utilities, local
                                    packages/ports)
                          [...]
                          lib/      X11R6 libraries.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No ports/packages-installed files allowed in X11R6/lib, yet 
www/linux-flashplugin6 installs files to /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin6/ 
now.

> > >  - As soon as a new way of doing it is published, I will follow it.
> >
> > It really is colleagues like you that make working on FreeBSD that extra
> > bit satisfactory.
>
> It would be nice if you could calm down and keep the discussion on a
> technical level.

*sigh* Sorry about that, I let myself get worked up. But please see above.

I still fail to see ambiguity in hier(7) about the issue general, but at least 
I'm very sure there's just no way to interpret it in a way that justifies 
installing the browser plugins into X11BASE.

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