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[Chuck Robey]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

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> Chuck Robey wrote:
> | I need to know more about where files are in the FreeBSD gnome.  I don't
> | want to pester you forever, but I need to know how to fix the location of
> | files in gnome, so I can change things.
> |
> | It won't come as a shock to anyhow to know that gnome wants to assume it's
> | always installed in Linux, or that Linux has the horrible habit of
> | installing everything under /usr.  This means that I will never find files
> | installed under a FreeBSD port installed where they would be in a classic
> | Linux install (which most of their docs will assume they should be).  This
> | isn't a complaint, it's quite right, and I am happy that the FreeBSD
> | porters took this adult approach, if anything I am unhappy at the Linux
> | folks for not doing this obvious thing (installing OUTSIDE of /usr,
> | keeping ports OUT of /usr/bin, usr/share, etc, etc)
>
> Not true.  The FreeBSD ports have been modified to respected FreeBSD's
> LOCALBASE and X11BASE.

Not true?  Not true that FreeBSD doesn't install into /usr/bin?  I thought
the meaning I had above was pretty clear, I wasn't trashing the port, Joe.
I was saying, I don't like the Linux practice of installing software into
/usr/bin, or anything like that, mixing with the system software.  You
disagree with that?

I'm amazed.

>
> |
> | OK, I have been pointed to a file that carries the gnome menu info, file
> | /usr/share/applications/mozilla.dektop.  I don't konw which of our gnome
> | ports installs this file, only that x11/gnome2 doesn't list it.  I looked
> | at the FreeBSD-gnome web page lookibng for any info on file mapping,
> | didn't find anything, so I am asking here.  I want to add a bunch of
> | browsers to the gnome file menus; can anyone point me towards a port that
> | installs this file, or perhaps the gnome file mapping for the FreeBSD
> | port (this is much better!)
>
> This file isn't installed by any FreeBSD port.  Mozilla will install a
> /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/applications/mozilla.desktop if you configure it
> with the right option.  Of course, per my previous emails, all of the
> browsers in FreeBSD can automatically install menu entries under
> Applications->Internet.
>
> Joe
>
> |
> |
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> | Chuck Robey         | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
> | chuckr at chuckr.org   | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy.
> |
> | New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into
> looking up
> | fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity,
> | Signa Phi Nothing).
> |
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> Joe Marcus Clarke
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Chuck Robey         | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr at chuckr.org   | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity,
Signa Phi Nothing).
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