ports/58726: [maintainer-update] upgrade for math/R-letter

[Eric van Gyzen]

The following reply was made to PR ports/58726; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen at stat.duke.edu>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/58726: [maintainer-update] upgrade for math/R-letter
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:14:59 -0500

 Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 > I still believe the port should adhere to hier(7) and use ${PREFIX}/bin,
 > ${PREFIX}/include, ${PREFIX}/libdata, ${DATADIR} and ${DOCSDIR}, see:
 
 So do I, but some things have more immediate, tangible benefits and are easier 
 to fix.  ;)
 
 The lib/R/library directory contains sub-packages, most of which used to be 
 add-on packages.  Each one expects to be installed entirely and exclusively 
 in a subdirectory of lib/R/library.  Making them conform to hier(7) would be 
 very painful and [arguably] fruitless.
 
 As for the other directories under lib/R, I will certainly investigate the 
 feasibility of coercing them to conform to hier(7).
 
 Cheers,
 Eric
 
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 Eric van Gyzen                        Sr. Systems Programmer
 http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/   ISDS, Duke University