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[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Chuck Robey wrote:
| On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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| Chuck Robey wrote:
| | I need to know more about where files are in the FreeBSD gnome.  I don't
| | want to pester you forever, but I need to know how to fix the
location of
| | files in gnome, so I can change things.
| |
| | It won't come as a shock to anyhow to know that gnome wants to
assume it's
| | always installed in Linux, or that Linux has the horrible habit of
| | installing everything under /usr.  This means that I will never find
files
| | installed under a FreeBSD port installed where they would be in a
classic
| | Linux install (which most of their docs will assume they should be).
  This
| | isn't a complaint, it's quite right, and I am happy that the FreeBSD
| | porters took this adult approach, if anything I am unhappy at the Linux
| | folks for not doing this obvious thing (installing OUTSIDE of /usr,
| | keeping ports OUT of /usr/bin, usr/share, etc, etc)
|
| Not true.  The FreeBSD ports have been modified to respected FreeBSD's
| LOCALBASE and X11BASE.
|
|
|> Not true?  Not true that FreeBSD doesn't install into /usr/bin?  I
thought
|> the meaning I had above was pretty clear, I wasn't trashing the port,
Joe.
|> I was saying, I don't like the Linux practice of installing software into
|> /usr/bin, or anything like that, mixing with the system software.  You
|> disagree with that?

I disagree with the sentence, "...gnome wants to assume it's always
installed in Linux."  The FreeBSD port fixes this so that GNOME knows
where to look for all its files.  That's why we have a FreeBSD port in
the first place.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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