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From: ahill@stang.netspace.net.au (Anthony Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: correct use of ports ?
Date: 11 Jul 1995 09:12:27 +1000
Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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Summary: correct use of ports ?
Keywords: ports

Howdy,

Whilst the ports are a great idea, simple to use, and just plain cool - I 
have a few things I'd like to clear up.

1st, what do you do with a port after you have compiled it - 
/usr/ports/whatever/work/whatever/bin  seems to be a pretty strange place 
to keep binaries, and I am never quite sure which files I should move 
from the ports tree into more "normal" working space, eg. usr/bin, which 
ones I should keep where they are and which files I should delete
Is this part of the installation in some way automated - is there usually 
a file with the ports which suggests what should be put where ?

2nd, what does "make clean" do ? Does it just kill the sources and 
intermidiate compilation files, the whole tree - what ? Sometimes instead 
of moving binaries from the ports tree - i just make symbolic links in 
/usr/bin to point to the relavent binaries in the port tree - what will 
make clean do to these links ?

Thanks

Anthony