ports/91213
Eric Anholt
eta at lclark.edu
Thu Jan 5 00:40:11 PST 2006
The following reply was made to PR ports/91213; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu>
To: gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/91213
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:31:29 -0800
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What I'm trying to fix is working with software outside of the ports
tree. The presence of things like gnomehack (bsd.gnome.mk) suggest that
we do really expect the ports tree to make software respect our hier(7),
not upstream maintainers. So, to assist people like me who work on
non-FreeBSD software on FreeBSD, it would be nice if we could let our
tools also know about where non-ports software (like a CVS checkout of
something) likes to install itself. I don't see how this would at all
damage the ports system (assuming of course that you fix the bug in my
patch where the 2nd path needs :=3D instead of =3D), but it would be one
less thing to hand-configure on every FreeBSD system I touch just so I
can build software.
It wouldn't need to be documented in hier(7). It wouldn't affect
requirements for software in the ports tree.
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Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt at FreeBSD.org
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