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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:10:54 -0500
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        "Matt Fioravante" <fmatthew5876@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing ports to /usr
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0711141110j61dcd607m9c2b059d80239c80@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com>

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> 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?

More importantly, why do you want/need to do this? I personally like
the separation of world and ports. It keeps things nice and tidy, and
that's I'm sure a major reason why it was done that way (obviously,
clobbering things in /usr is the main reason).

Josh



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