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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!dolphin.neosoft.com!nobody From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:26:25 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1mace5.ir1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.167.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35807 In article <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole>, "Pierre Y. Dampure" <pdampure@dial.pipex.com> writes: > > > Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote in article > <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>... > >> What's bugging me is this: why create another directory and link it to >> /usr/ports? Why not just lndir /usr/ports directly? >> >> What am I not getting here? >> > > I suspect the issue is : where would you generate your object files / > executables ? Ah, OK. I think I get it now. So, in other words, a "lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports" would result in a read-only /usr/ports dir, correct? Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads