From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 18:13:16 2007 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 84ACB16A468 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from drone1.qsi.net.nz (drone1-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240A113C4E7 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: (qmail 14496 invoked by uid 0); 14 Nov 2007 18:13:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([202.89.146.5]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Nov 2007 18:13:10 -0000 Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5028E7E863; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:13:09 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:13:09 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Matt Fioravante Message-ID: <20071114181309.GA53731@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports to /usr 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: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:16 -0000 On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Matt Fioravante wrote: > Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr > instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system > binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do? It's not safe, for the reasons that you have specified. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled