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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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