From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 5:37:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.dante.org.uk (alpha.dante.org.uk [193.63.211.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEF037B43F for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:37:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theta.dante.org.uk ([193.63.211.7]) by alpha.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13RZm6-0007Kj-00; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:58 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dante.org.uk) by theta.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13RZm4-0003OQ-00; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:56 +0100 Message-ID: <39A3C568.32E686EC@dante.org.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:56 +0100 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Delivery of Advanced Networking Service to Europe Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? References: <14754.2222.927759.462718@guru.mired.org> <20000822084309.D38787@hamlet.nectar.com> <14755.26839.743103.399203@guru.mired.org> <20000823065243.A43477@hamlet.nectar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:01:59AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Um - why? If you removed the setting of LOCALBASE in that case, you > > wouldn't change the disk layout at all. > > I prefer installed executables, data files, and man pages to refer to > /opt. Duh. > Just wondering: what is the reason of using /opt instead of /usr/local, apart from Solaris influence? Do you use /usr/local for anything? -- * * Konstantin Chuguev - Application Engineer * * Francis House, 112 Hills Road * Cambridge CB2 1PQ, United Kingdom D A N T E WWW: http://www.dante.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message