On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Christopher Nehren wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:56:53 EDT, Mike Makonnen scribbled these > curious markings: > > I have thought about this considerably, and I think the best solution > > is to have ports rc.d scripts installed to /etc/rc.d. One of the problems > > Please, no. This is in direct violation of hier(8), POLA, the concept of > separating third-party packages from the base system, and it also pollutes the > concept of a lean, clean, vendor-provided / file system. One of the > things that I love about FreeBSD is that it doesn't make a mess of the > base system like Linux does. If I wanted the mess that putting port > scripts in /etc/rc.d would cause, I'd use Linux. > ports tries to make it more difficult to place things outside of ${PREFIX} for a reason. :) -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # "The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug # someone with it." # -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340Received on Mon Aug 16 2004 - 16:18:41 UTC
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