From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 10 17:52:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 17:52:24 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28C537B401 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:52:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 145ICM-0000Co-00; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:56:14 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A34343D.643B2377@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:56:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brian Dean Subject: Re: /usr/local abuse References: <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> <200012101557.KAA29588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <14899.43958.622675.847234@guru.mired.org> <20001210120840.C38697@vger.bsdhome.com> <14899.47196.795281.662619@zircon.seattle.wa.us> <14899.49294.958909.82912@guru.mired.org> <20001210134441.B39643@vger.bsdhome.com> <20001210113508.C80274@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 01:44:41PM -0500, Brian Dean wrote: > > I think I finally understand what you are complaining about, > > Maybe. > > > But to say that installing ports into /usr/local is somehow wrong, I > > have to disagree. > > Do you understand why NetBSD Packages (ie, the system they took from us) > install into /usr/pkg by default rather than /usr/local ? Yes, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. In fact, I find it slighly bizarre. I dislike needing a different path on NetBSD than what I have on {Free,Open}BSD. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message