mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:17:51PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:31:31 -0500, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:57:27PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> >>Miguel Mendez wrote:
> >>>On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:08:07 -0400
> >>>Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Personally, I'd love to see /usr/X11R6 folded into /usr/local, but  
> >>until
> >>>>then, I think it's nothing short of retarded for apps to install into
> >>>>unusual locations to prove a point.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>It might be interesting looking at the work the pkgsrc people have done
> >>>wrt $PREFIX enforcement. On my NetBSD boxen xorg lives under
> >>>/usr/pkg/xorg and all packages are installed under /usr/pkg, not
> >>>/usr/X11R6 or /usr/local.
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>
> >>There are many good potential layouts, such as the one you mentioned.
> >>But the issue in my mind is how one would go about implementing it
> >>without wreaking havoc on the poor, unsuspecting users.
> >>
> >
> >	One logical move might be to have symlinks to either|or
> >	/usr/local, /usr/pkg in FreeBSD 6-STABLE, then have it
> >	hardwired in 7-STABLE.  We could just dump  everything
> >	into /usr, /usr/bin, and /etc;
> 
> If it happens FreeBSD do that, then FreeBSD is messy, Linux-ish and dead.  
> :-P
> 
	Right on the money!  That's one thing I don't like about
	the Linux distros.  And why it makes sense to dump any 
	local ports (GUI or whatever) into /usr/local.

	The default /etc/motd would inform people.  

	-g


> 
> >	but it seems better to have a
> >	place for the default|system binaries, libs, /etc
> >	and one and only one for everything else.
> >
> >	gary
> 
> 
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