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Hi, |
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I hate to start by complaining or critisizing what I consider a |
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wonderful project. I'm basically a NetBSD user who is looking |
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for functionality(hardware 3d support) that linux has, and |
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NetBSD is lacking. I was working through the install, and ran |
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into a couple oddities/annoyances. I noticed that alot of |
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packages in portage statically set the install prefix. I find |
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this to be very undesirable behavior, and was wondering if |
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this is temporary or has noone complained about this rather |
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rigid structure? From my perspective a system should be divided |
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in this manner: |
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base system (kernel, and userland): --prefix=/, and --prefix=/usr |
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package system installed pkgs: --prefix=/usr/pkg |
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X system: --prefix=/usr/X11R6 |
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this leaves /usr/local, and /opt for hand built packages. In NetBSD |
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the base system is completely seperate from the package system, and |
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the package system, and X prefixes can be overridden by the |
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enviroment variables LOCALBASE, and X11BASE respectively. I love |
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the overall design of the system, and clean nature of the /etc |
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directory. I would be happy to help make the needed changes to |
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allow for this increased flexibility. |
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--Matt |
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