Subject: Re: pkgsrc and tcsh
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Ben Cottrell <tamino@wolfhut.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/26/2002 15:28:38
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On Sun, 26 May 2002 18:19:56 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse wrote:
> The problem isn't one program in /bin.  The problem is that once you
> let yourself install one program in one OS-managed directory, there's
> much less reason not to make it two, then three, and before you know it
> you can't tell what's what any more.  That's why I said "that way lies
> madness", not "that is madness".

My really big beef is /usr/X11R6. I've sometimes gone so far as to
make it a union mount so that programs that want to install stuff
there can do it, but when upgrade time comes, I can still pull the
original directory out from underneath and put the new one in its
place.

Why do so many pieces of software suffer from the misconception that
it is even remotely okay to install stuff in the system directories???

	~Ben
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