Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Message-ID: <200207051120.g65BK5vh097429@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/40222; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> Cc: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@acm.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 13:15:49 +0200 > apart from gzip and bzip2 (and for 4-S perl) being part of the base > system, you may want to try /usr/local. this is where ports get > installed and it's the perfectly right place to add your own binaries or > files. Simon, I am thinking about avoiding problems with FreeBSD in the future. See what happened to Solaris (I sent a description of this problem, that I hope will arrive without problems to the freebsd-gnats-submit mailing list.) It is possible changing those binaries. But it is not a good idea having two copies (with a different behavior) of some binary in system directories that are provided in each PATH environment variable. Different users will see different behaviors as a consequence of having those paths in another order! What about system behaviour? Changing those binaries in /usr/bin (a very bad answer to the problem) will change the operating system behavior. It will be very hard to diagnose a problem on a remote BSD installation. Cheers! Igor. -- Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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