Re: hmm...

2001-07-24 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:41:05PM -0400, Richard Tibbetts wrote: > For what its worth, debian doesn't seem to really use /opt. At least > not for debian packages, which tend to put their stuff right in /usr. I do like the idea of following the freebsd (i think net and open bsd may do this too) co

Re: libc strategy

2001-07-02 Thread Will Yardley
that this is the never-ending debate... just my $0.02 w GT wrote: > > Quoting Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > i'm new to the list > > Me too. Hi there! :) > > > on another note, do people think that there's enough resources > &g

Re: libc strategy

2001-07-02 Thread Will Yardley
01 at 04:30:46PM -0500, GT wrote: > > Quoting Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Mostly what's been discussed in order to make this feasible is to > > either > > (a) port glibc to BSD, or > > (b) patch existing packages to work with BSD libc. >

Re: fbsd-apt (done in perl)

2001-07-01 Thread Will Yardley
i'm new to the list so please feel free to flog me if this question is dumb or is in the archives already (my searching hasn't turned anything up). is there anything like alien to convert between .deb and fbsd packages? i have managed to build (with a little bit of tweaking) some of our internal