From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 4:15: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 04:14:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E6637B698 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 04:14:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p38-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.39]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id VAA02020; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:14:22 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:22:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation References: <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > > Rant second: FreeBSD *violates* years of traditions with it's > treatment of /usr/local. /usr/local is for *local* things, not add-on > software packages! Coopting /usr/local for non-local software creates > needless complexity and confusion, which of course leads to needless > pain. Not for everyone. FreeBSD adopted one of the ways /usr/local was being used. You can keep ranting on this and pretending the way above is how everyone used /usr/local as long as you want, but the fact is that you won't get this changed. Honestly, let it go. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial choice." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message