Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ?

On 9/14/14, 3:22 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright_at_mu.org 
> <mailto:bright_at_mu.org>> wrote:
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>     On 9/13/14, 11:39 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
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>     Should really be a standalone package.
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> It's not exactly the same, but the lang/python2 port for example is a 
> meta-port which creates
> symlinks such as  /usr/local/bin/python2 -> python2.7.
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> So the precedent of having a metaport which creates symlinks is there.
> What folks  have been complaining about in this thread is having symlinks
> in the "base system directories" such as /bin.
Why do you care what people are complaining about?  Just make the port. :)

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> My personal feeling is that we should look at this on a case-by-case 
> basis and allow these types
> of ports, such as for /bin/bash but I'm sure others will disagree.

We already allow such ports, for example a bunch of kmods install into 
/boot/kernel or /boot/modules.

There are always exceptions to rules and for good reasons!

find . -name pkg-plist | xargs grep -A 3 '^_at_cwd /$'








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