Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

ok, what about libraries, are you going to add a new place for included
files or have a script that sets the namespace for every library a
program you want to compile needs?

think about python for instances, it's needs zlib, bzip2, openssl and
it couldn't depend even on more stuff (like libxml, sqlite, curses,
etc), but I tried
to keep it simple, but usable and then you also have the configuration
files, binds are find, but you need a big amount of them to get something
going....

in the end you have to think in the actual usage.

I chose to "pollute" /sys/src/cmd with non standard packages for all of
the above reasons and some that don't come to my mind right now.

but there was the precedent of the .iso.bz2 packages like perl, TeX,
python, even the old X11 port.

contrib allows -r to choose the root so you can live without "polluting"
/, but then you have to work your bind magic, do it and tell me
how it goes when you want to run configure to port something


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Federico G. Benavento