To the majority on this list -- my apologies if I end up feeding this troll instead of making him 'go away'. to the OP -- this is why you got absolutely NO answer from the devs. and now for the archives in the hopes that at least some of the future would be posters will research before posting.
First a disclaimer: I am not a developer, but have been using OBSD and following this list for many years. I do believe what I am about to say is fairly accurate and is definitely more consistent with the subject line than some of the incessant whining already taking place. OpenBSD is an OS developed by very intelligent THINKING people with its sole target audience being other THINKING persons. For the "thousands" of lusers too lazy to use an option already made available by the native tools -- there are thousands of flavors of Linux, at least one of which will do things consistent with your desires. For the totally illiterate lusers who cannot even read the docs to find the said option -- there is always Windoze whose stated goal is "to save the users from themselves". Personally, I like the fact that aside from an occasional bug, I am in charge of my computer and NOT the other way around. Sure, that usually starts with a thinking cap and almost always requires a fair ability to read and comprehend the best documentation of any OS bar none. (BTW, genuine bugs get addressed in record time and much faster than any other OS I know, which is a rather long list.) And now let's get back to the only real business that we, the users, have on this list -- testing and reporting on the features and technical innovations that the developers already put in to the upcoming release. On 17 Feb 2008 at 16:22, Zbigniew Baniewski 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. > -- > pozdrawiam / regards > > Zbigniew Baniewski > > --------------------------------------------------------- System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bitwise Internet Technologies, Inc. 22 Drydock Avenue tel: (617) 737-1837 Boston, MA 02210 fax: (617) 439-4941
