/usr/dports now exists

Ross Nelson rossNO at raSPndoAMmdata.net
Sat Oct 11 16:24:25 PDT 2003


> :I may sound like a total idiot here, as I'm still a beginner to BSD and
> :don't know much about the ports systems; however, wouldn't it work to put
> :everything as subdirs of /usr/ports, or would that break a bunch of
> :automation scripts/apps?  (/usr/ports/darwin, etc)
>     That's an old thread.  We called our ports override /usr/dfports.

Yeah, I saw the message with it being named dfports; was suggesting it
nontheless.  Rather than having a ton of /usr/*ports dirs, why not have
/usr/ports/*?  Or would that break a bunch of stuff that you'd rather not
recode?

Ross







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