On Mar 25, 12:18pm, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Subject: Re: DEC uses NetBSD
> The problem with most(?) software building configurations in the FreeBSD
ports
> collection is that they assume they use /usr/local for installation. I for
> myself would like to see a building-process that regards a user-setable
$PREFIX
> (or whatever), that's regarded during package bilding.
>
> Besides that, some config-file which sets options for (all) packages could
come
> handy, so one can say (on a system-wide basis) whether the system's
US-resident
> or not, whether to use SOCKS if the package supports it, etc.

Hmm, how about /etc/packages.conf with the following type of entries:

PKG_DIR = /usr/local
PKG_CONF = /etc/config

or

PKG_DIR = /opt
PKG_CONF = /etc/default

to taste - possibly one could even put stuff to be added to paths in there or
include system stuff (at which point /etc/path.conf might be a more sensible
name).

Cheers

Rob