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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.13.28.13!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 14:31:59 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3308DC5F.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> References: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: conrads@neosoft.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35735 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > What's bugging me is this: why create another directory and link it to > /usr/ports? Why not just lndir /usr/ports directly? I don't understand what you mean. lndir takes two arguments, the place you're linking to and the place you'll be sticking the links under. That's the "new directory" being referred to and I don't see how you could escape it unless you wanted to just link your ports tree straight into / or /usr, which would be evil incarnate. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.