From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 13:41:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A6C16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99D043FF7 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 13F448B7; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:40:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:40:52 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031201214052.GY90713@seekingfire.com> References: <20031126232537.24176.qmail@web13704.mail.yahoo.com> <20031126234313.GZ90881@submonkey.net> <3FC53E21.9020709@potentialtech.com> <3FCBADA3.8070909@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FCBADA3.8070909@potentialtech.com> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: FreeBSD for Linux users X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:41:14 -0000 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:07:47PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >The location of the config directory isn't the only thing that looks > >strange to them. The linux executables, as well, traditionally go in /bin > >(or /sbin). It seems that someone migrating from linux would find it more > >familiar to have ports' PREFIX set to / (instead of /usr/local). The > >disadvantages are: 1. risk of filling the / slice (which is typically very > >small on FreeBSD and very big on most linux distros). 2. a port file > >overrunning a same-named file in the base system. Some people find it > >easier to keep these two things in mind than to get used to the idea of > >/usr/local. > > In my experience, I haven't seen anyone have trouble with this, I would > assume the reason is that they seldom need to know where the binaries are. > As long as their path looks for them, they'll run and nobody's the wiser. Additionally, the the FHS specifies "/opt" for this purpose. It's likely either an older distribution or a distribution that follows RedHat in ignoring /opt if one sees /bin being uses. And /opt maps nicely to /usr/local in concept. -T -- A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane