Subject: Re: pkgsrc and tcsh
To: Ben Cottrell <tamino@wolfhut.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/26/2002 18:51:20
Ben Cottrell <tamino@wolfhut.org> writes:
> 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???

That's what xpkgwedge is for...

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