From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 8:59:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E77837B421 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2CGxI100429 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:59:18 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002031217550827:5793 ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:55:08 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CHCoN63476 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:12:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:12:49 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/12/2002 05:55:08 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/12/2002 05:55:14 PM, Serialize complete at 03/12/2002 05:55:14 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100 > From: Cliff Sarginson > 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 -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 4:56PM up 12 days, 18:04, 17 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.19, 0.16 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message