From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 19 5:56:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A2837B408 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 05:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Kf0H-0007BT-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:05 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17Kf0G-0007Ai-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:04 +0700 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5JCuUcp086170; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:30 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5JCuUsr086137; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:30 +0700 (NOVST) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:56:29 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Ollivier Robert Cc: FreeBSD-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why don't we search /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include by default? Message-ID: <20020619195629.B71807@regency.nsu.ru> References: <3CF3DAFB.7C9C5108@mindspring.com> <20020619112509.GA23487@tara.freenix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020619112509.GA23487@tara.freenix.org>; from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:25:09PM +0200 X-Envelope-To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, FreeBSD-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:25:09PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Antoine Beaupre: > > Ideally, /usr/local should go away. Packages should install in /usr by > > default. But the ports system would need a bigger fence around it to > > expose /usr this way, IMHO. > > If you're advocating something like the FHS used on Linux (which put things > like gnome and the kitchen-sink in /usr/bin), then forget it. I don't want > FreeBSD become another Debian-like monster. Very true. The idea of ports separated from the base is a lot of help when dealing with system upgrade/backup/wipe-out. Heck, I could have simply "rm -rf /usr/local" and get rid of all non-X11 ports I have ;-) And still get the box running. 3-rd party should go in /usr/local (OK, X11 goes in /usr/X11R6), thus leaving /usr populated by the base only. Period. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message