From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 5:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2914B37B43C for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13RZut-0006R0-00; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:46:03 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id OAA13145; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:46:01 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 12899; Wed Aug 23 14:44:40 2000 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13RZtU-0003g6-00; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:44:36 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Konstantin Chuguev Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:56 +0100." <39A3C568.32E686EC@dante.org.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:44:36 +0200 Message-ID: <14141.967034676@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:56 +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > Just wondering: what is the reason of using /opt instead of /usr/local, > apart from Solaris influence? Do you use /usr/local for anything? NetBSD uses /usr/opt . It's a matter of taste. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message