Re: Release process (was Re: DarwinPorts 1.3.1)

Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.darwinports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 2, 2006, at 06:55, Paul Guyot wrote:

> Developers:
[snip]
> - believe in DP principles. For example, they are believers that we  
> should not have anything in /usr/local. The recent 1.3.1 fiasco  
> shows that it's not the case from our user base. Another example:  
> instead of using an installer for some software, such as i-packages  
> for TeX, developers, unlike users, will develop the missing ports  
> to have everything in /opt/local.

Really? I don't recall hearing anyone say that you shouldn't put  
anything in /usr/local (and I was surprised by the recent exchange on  
this list where a copy of readline installed in /usr/local seemed to  
be causing problems for DP). Rather, I've heard it said that you  
should not configure DP to live in /usr/local since people are  
accustomed to installing their own software there.
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