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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages collection
> > installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place for
> > things that I maintain, instead of came with FreeBSD. Putting
> > everything in /usr is one such solution. /opt is another (but having
> > everything have it's own hierarchy pretty much sucks).
> 
> Try maintaining a lab of 40-80 identical machines.  Then imagine
> distributing /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 via NFS.  Then you only have to
> install the package on one machine to install it everywhere.  That
> doesn't work when installed under /usr.  Are you enlightened yet?


Yes - it's cool to have all the packages in one place, such as
/usr/local (BSDI has what, /usr/contrib?)   What is NOT cool is
/usr/local/etc, which I believe should be different for each machine. 
Why not /etc/local/..., say?   BTW, OpenBSD doesn't have a
/usr/local/etc (everything goes in /etc).

Alex


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