Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:12:49 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100
> From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest!
> There is a hierarchy that FreeBSD uses, the only minorly controversial point,
> that I believe gets discussed at every level from time to time over the
> years is the use of "/usr/local". This is really a semantic problem, in
> that "local" implies for a lot of people, their own "stuff" .. i.e.
> programs, scripts docs etc that they produce themselves. In FreeBSD it
> is the home of installed programs that are not part of the base
> distribution, viz. "ports". (Forgetting about X11 for a moment which
> plays by it's own rules). You can change this I believe if you really
> want to.
Yes. You could put e. g. "LOCAL_BASE=/opt" in /etc/make.conf.
> But if you go with the current hierarchy then the only thing you have to
> consider is what to do with your really local, local stuff :).
Or you could install your really local, local stuff to /opt or
/local... I don't like the commingling of user dirs with the std.
hierarchy as described below. But that's just me.
> I simply have an equivalent hierarchy under /home, i.e.
> /home/bin
> /home/sbin
> /home/etc
> ...and so on
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