From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 15:41:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11099 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brickbat8.mindspring.com (brickbat8.mindspring.com [207.69.200.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA11086 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kbol4.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.226.164]) by brickbat8.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA09035; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970908224044.00c94f58@mail.mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mail.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 18:40:44 -0400 To: Brandon Gillespie From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:19 AM 9/8/97 -0600, Brandon Gillespie wrote: >On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Brian Mitchell wrote: > >> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Lutz Albers wrote: >> >> what about /usr/contrib like bsd/os? > >its no different than /usr/local, just a different name. Except that /usr/local and /usr/contrib have different connotations. /usr/local seems like it's for programs written locally, and /usr/contrib seems like it is for programs dl'd from the net. >I think the main issue here is that people feel /usr/local/ should be a >different fs (I agree), but many feel its unclean to mount from anything >other than root. What's wrong with having a /usr and a /usr/local filesystem? >Suggestion: mount it on /local, and symlink /usr/local to /local.. *bleah* I usually mount a drive at /local for kicking around in, various programs in states of build, source trees, etc. Totally different purpose than /usr/local. Where I work we have / and /local on different disks. Most if not all machines have nearly identical / disks. The /local, OTOH, is filled with all sorts of data. For example, my web servers at work are located in /local/etc/httpd.dir on the web server machines. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"