Re: FreeBSD ports

[Changwoo Ryu <cwryu adam kaist ac kr>]

中井 幸博 <nakai@internetsolutions.co.jp> writes:

> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, the FreeBSD ports for GNOME have many wasteful patches (but it
> > > needs).
> > > And we need to make them again and again each time GNOME released :-)
> > > When the GNOME project itself consider about each *BSD, it is very
> > > helpful.
> > 
> > How come those patches have been never sent to us?
> > 
> > Miguel
> 
> Mainly, it contains fixes for the FreeBSD install policy.
> For example, X related binary should be in /usr/X11R6/bin,
> and library number must never be 0:0:0 etc. :-)

The Debian policy also says so.  I have gimp in /usr/X11R6/bin.

IMHO, such a thing is not a program maintainer's job, but
(RPM|DEB|*BSD) package maintainer's.

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Changwoo Ryu