Portsbase and maildir

Jim Trigg jktrigg at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 05:27:23 UTC 2021


I am going to submit that PORTSBASE should be something other than 
/usr/local/. My current preference (though not solid) is /ports/. I 
would like to reclaim /usr/local for true local (site-based, not 
distribution-based) things. (Example: local [site-based] scripts in 
/usr/local/s?bin/.)

On a related note, I would like to see maildirmake separated out as a 
port of its own on which ports supporting Maildir depend. That way we 
avoid clunkiness like "/usr/local/bin/maildrop-maildirmake". (The first 
point most recently evidenced itself as "where do I put a symbolic link 
to maildrop-maildirmake called maildirmake?".)

Thanks,
Jim Trigg


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