On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:50:21AM -0500, William Boshuck wrote:
> In essence, this is suggesting to move third party software
> installed by the project's third party software management
> tools out of /usr/local, so that it is out of the way for
^^^^^^^^^
> users who want to install software on their system without
> using the project's third party software management tools.
Yes, indeed; why not, if you know, that such approach can be a problem for
the user?
> I can imagine one response: Port whatever it is, or else
That cannot be a valid response, when given to the _user_.
> change where it will be installed if you don't want to port
> it.
Yes, that's exactly the problem: it'll be installed (that "non-ported"
software) where all "ported" software is installed already - into
/usr/local. It's default for all source packages since years. So, why not
to install all the ported software into something like /usr/pkg, or
/usr/ported, for example?
It does work in NetBSD - it could work exactly as good in OpenBSD.
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pozdrawiam / regards
Zbigniew Baniewski
