From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 19 08:09:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16259 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16219; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA18029; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:08:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:08:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609191508.JAA18029@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jason Thorpe , Julian Elischer , GNATS Management , freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk In-Reply-To: <13644.843122081@time.cdrom.com> References: <199609190558.WAA27939@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <13644.843122081@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > Well, kinda hoping for a unified "ports" collection (_I_ certainly prefer > > the name "opt", as do the NetBSD folks I've asked so far... :-) > > I'm not sure I do. /opt and /usr/opt have very definite Sun-ish > connotations for me, given that Sun was the first I knew to use that > organizational hierarchy, and they used it for something rather > different than /usr/ports (similar, but still different). I agree. /opt on a SUN is anything but optional. All of the OS patches are installed there, and *all* Sun provided software is installed there. As I understand it, they use /opt simply because it made using *their* package tools easier, but it by no means implies 'optional' software. When I first installed Solaris 2.3 I went with the defaults for the size of /opt. What a mistake that was since even before 2.4 was released /opt was full of Sun provided 'patches' and binaries. Nate