From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 1: 3:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC46437B43F for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626DA661E; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:03:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:03:11 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: matt@fear.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <200104240533.f3O5Xr304341@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: : :Thomas (Matt) Barton writes: : :> Another great thing about the ports collection is that everything :> gets installed in /usr/local. I don't have to worry about /etc :> getting cluttered, as well as /bin, /usr/sbin, etc. There are a :> few exceptions, of course, such as qmail which goes to /var/qmail, :> but that is about it. : :Every FHS-compliant Linux distribution reserves /usr/local :for _you_ to use. It is for _local_ stuff only. : :Doesn't this make sense? If you compile a home-grown or self-ported :app for FreeBSD, where would you put it? I hope you don't dump it /usr/local. I've got dozens of things there, which works just fine. Read the hier(7) manual page. :in /usr/local with all the stuff provided by FreeBSD! It looks like :you need a /usr/local/local or /usr/local_I_REALLY_MEAN_IT for this. Why? The stuff in /usr/local isn't part of FreeBSD. Sure, lots of what's in my /usr/local is from the ports or packages, but none of it is part of the *base* system. There are oodles of FreeBSD machines that don't have anything in /usr/local that perform just fine. Having this stuff in /usr/local also makes it easier to figure out what's on a new system. : :Putting emacs under /usr/local is a relic from the days when :you'd buy a real UNIX system without emacs. It made sense, :since you were installing local (your site) additions. Now you :get emacs on a CD-ROM along with the rest of your OS. I don't install emacs on my machines. It's not part of the OS. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message