On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > In message <p0511170fb9c130cfa786@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn > writes: > > > > Any famous last words before the fat lady sings ? > > My biggest concern is the minority of users installing expat2 from > ports/packages and then not being able to figure out how to use it, since > they always get expat1 since /usr/bin comes before /usr/local/bin in $PATH. > I'm sure there will also be issues with autoconf-based ports that don't do > proper version checking of libraries which will pick up static libs / > headers from /usr instead of /usr/local as well.
Isn't that something that should be incorporated into the system at install time, that /usr/local/bin always should have precedence over /usr/bin? And this shouldn't be something you would have to change manually? As /usr/local/bin always contains newer versions than /usr/bin, if an application is installed that also is in the base system, /usr/local/bin should always "win" over /usr/bin. Or are there some disadvantages over this? Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
