From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 5:51: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC67437B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38FB1925D; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA04167; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:51:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:51:00 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Konstantin Chuguev Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? Message-ID: <20000823075100.A1471@hamlet.nectar.com> 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> <39A3C568.32E686EC@dante.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39A3C568.32E686EC@dante.org.uk>; from Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:36:56PM +0100 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:36:56PM +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > Just wondering: what is the reason of using /opt instead of /usr/local, > apart from Solaris influence? No Solaris influence, actually. Just strlen("/opt") < strlen("/usr/local"). It looks nicer to me. Secondarily to see if a ports behaves when ${LOCALBASE} != /usr/local. > Do you use /usr/local for anything? Nope. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message