From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 7:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-160.telepath.com [216.14.2.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F7DB37B423 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 07:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 95318 invoked by uid 100); 23 Aug 2000 14:53:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14755.58735.734025.505698@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:53:35 -0500 (CDT) 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: <39A3C568.32E686EC@dante.org.uk> 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konstantin Chuguev writes: > "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. Ok, that makes sense. I overlooked the man pages. > Just wondering: what is the reason of using /opt instead of /usr/local, > apart from Solaris influence? Do you use /usr/local for anything? I use /usr/opt instead of /opt. I use /usr/local for things that are local additions to the system, as opposed to things that are gotten through freebsd. They have different update & backup policies, which is why they were separated. Ports got moved instead of local because ports has a mechanism for moving them, whereas local things may or may not have that.