From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 5:48: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88CC637B43F for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 25688 invoked by uid 100); 24 Apr 2001 12:47:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15077.30207.8849.168351@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:47:59 -0500 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <8445156@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Albert D. Cahalan types: > 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 > 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. Yes, but "ports are just pre-ported stuff to make your life simple" is the counterargument. Unless you want to treat the two differently, it really doesn't make any difference. Since I do want to treat them differently (because I can restore packages from the CDROM set), I agree with you, and set LOCALBASE= /usr/opt in /etc/make.conf. > 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've got emacs under /usr/local. That's because I didn't like any of the versions in the ports tree, so grabbed mine from xemacs.org. As such, it ain't on the CDROM set it goes in /usr/local, not /usr/opt. This does bring up a question - how many Linux package distribution systems let you change the installation point if you want to? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message