From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 23: 2: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-251.telepath.com [216.14.0.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D360137B43C for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 85044 invoked by uid 100); 23 Aug 2000 06:01:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14755.26839.743103.399203@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:01:59 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? In-Reply-To: <20000822084309.D38787@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <14754.2222.927759.462718@guru.mired.org> <20000822084309.D38787@hamlet.nectar.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jacques A. Vidrine writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I'm curious - are there any committers who regularly use a system with > > LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? > > I have LOCALBASE=/opt for a couple of years now. > > OTOH, I also have a symlink from /usr/local -> /opt due to a small > but significant number of ports that are not PREFIX clean. Um - why? If you removed the setting of LOCALBASE in that case, you wouldn't change the disk layout at all. However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular basis. That's not you. Thanx,