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Date:      Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:57:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation
Message-ID:  <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org>
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<<On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:37:53 -0600 (CST), Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> said:

> However, FreeBSD is still the only vendor distribution I know of that
> installs software in /usr/local. That's the problem - software that
> comes from the vendor doesn't belong in the local administrative
> regime.

No software that is a part of FreeBSD installs in /usr/local.  As a
convenience feature, FreeBSD includes software from third parties
which does so, and in most cases has always done so by default.

-GAWollman



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