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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: Suggested
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:45:09 -0400
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On Friday 24 August 2001 11:46, Aaron wrote:
> I'm not so concerned with "official" views as with what works. I know
> there are MANY real-world system administrators out there that dont
> follow the "official" view for one reason or another. What I'd like to
> know is what they do and why. I think the hierarchy is the last hurdle
> for me to true BSD enlightenment. :D

Use the ports collection, and let it put things where it "wants" to put 
things.
Then you will a conventional, workabout FreeBSD system.

Don't put things any other place, and don't build things from tarballs 
yourself without using ports, until you've used the ports approach enough to 
understand the usual way; in fact, never install something directly yourself 
or over-ride defaults in the ports unless you already know exactly why you're 
doing it.

-- 
Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . .   bts@wnt.sas.com (work)
Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . .   bts@babbleon.org (personal)

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