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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:22:58 -0400
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        Aaron <click46@webpimps.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Suggested
Message-ID:  <20010823232258.B13525@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20010824150400.A73463@itouchnz.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:04:00PM %2B1200
References:  <20010824025913.E23AF37B409@hub.freebsd.org> <20010824150400.A73463@itouchnz.itouch>

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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 23 23:04 -0400,
sent by Jonathan Chen                                                
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:57:27PM -0700, Aaron wrote:
> > 
> >   After months of using FreeBSD, there is only one area in which I am 
> > still quite fuzzy. There seems to be no real standard place to 
> > install "stuff". For example, when I installed Samba the other day, I 
...
> 
> All third-party s/w not actively maintained by the developers goes
> into /usr/local; the only exception being XFree86, which goes into
> /usr/X11R6. If you use the ports system to build your software,
> all the components will end up in the `correct' places:

sometimes not...like gentoo, kde2. shouldn't they be in /usr/X11R6?

-- 
 so, do you like word games or scrabble?
	 - parv

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