From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 27 14:54:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0B11065670 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahamiltonwright@mta.ca) Received: from mailserv.mta.ca (mailserv.mta.ca [138.73.1.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E46E8FC28 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahamiltonwright@mta.ca) Received: from [138.73.29.51] (helo=qemg.org) by mailserv.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1LnDS9-0000ay-9n; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:54:37 -0300 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:57:16 -0300 (ADT) From: Andrew Wright Sender: andrew@qemg.org To: Barnaby Scott In-Reply-To: <49CCE5D3.6020900@waywood.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <49CB957F.30807@waywood.co.uk> <49CCE5D3.6020900@waywood.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine without X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:40 -0000 On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no > answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, > place to download application source to? Presumably you don't want it mixed Not dumb at all. There are several conventions. The one I use is to have a user named "build". This provides a natural home for these packages (the home directory of that account) as well as nice management for setting uname, potential wheel association etc. for an account that is used for building system libs by executing "su - build" to get that type of admin process underway. A.