On Feb 17, 2008 10:22 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: > > > Does the -B option to pkg_add do exactly this? Or YOU could do the > > equivalent and tell ./configure to install to a different base > > directory. This doesn't need any funding either. > > And did I ask for any funding? When? > > Of course, that I can - and thousands of other users are able to either - > play with "./configure" switches before compilation of every "non-ported" > package. I just would to point attention, that _one single change_ can save > the time of that thousands people. Instead of playing with "./configure" > switches - they could be busy... porting software to OpenBSD, for example.
I meant, it doesn't need funding because it's a change that you make to your own install process. Be realistic. Thousands or even hundreds of people will not see this feature change and suddenly decide to contribute to ports. Aside from you, I don't even recall people complaining about it on a regular basis. They will be too busy complaining about this change. They'll have to figure out how to tell their non-ports ./configure scripts to search for their pkg_added libraries which NOW live in some non-standard /usr/pkg directory. That's just my take, good luck. --david
