From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 11:38:21 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 11:38:20 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE3F37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA53023; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBAJcIn81051; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:38:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:38:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Joe Kelsey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/local abuse Message-ID: <20001210113817.D80274@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14899.43958.622675.847234@guru.mired.org> <20001210120840.C38697@vger.bsdhome.com> <14899.47196.795281.662619@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <14899.49294.958909.82912@guru.mired.org> <14899.54808.947617.700838@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <14899.55273.863236.40012@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14899.55273.863236.40012@zircon.seattle.wa.us>; from joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > Basically, /usr/local is for anything the local administration wants to > officially support. The ports use of this (and by extension, > pre-compiled ports (packages)) is thus completely justified. Do you understandy why NetBSD's Packages install in /usr/pkg ? What is your position behind that? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message