From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 19:10:56 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 443C216A41B for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:10:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E807113C474 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so3067403pyb for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:10:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=pQbWUAFzYQ/YrRJHvugzXdl5awouHA25RoV7iDNUc/U=; b=cXFdOOpSldqmrQCCH//qya7Fdcsqofl9X1UgDk8Ig3/tgeWx0mNNlZr9Zwht65lFmdGqcLkKwUNzOSNaS1xzHXvQpv2D+cKQZAxfMHGh4q5tU1gz5A0sqSTn99KUvTEe77L2Z/eN5BrazdVUcwvNb9nCSN9l9cNRA8vnFeBxZU0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TwgQIVSuctyu+Cu1vHYWyQiFFoKlW6Mty/ZsdiYgcbM52iox1A96p0yz5ODilt1hnW6IdwGeLLGv2NZF3VhoaGchSABnsK7rxGSyE0E0uwCGG2m7Gp3IouAZu5fXze/Qw4f7BCemJd95dtuSGnXIeMu5W56HJKI2/8j+SkDX6q8= Received: by 10.35.98.3 with SMTP id a3mr9161292pym.1195067454815; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:10:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.57.12 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:10:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8cb6106e0711141110j61dcd607m9c2b059d80239c80@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:10:54 -0500 From: "Josh Carroll" To: "Matt Fioravante" In-Reply-To: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> 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 Reply-To: josh.carroll@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:10:56 -0000 > 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