From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 8 15:59:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA12324 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA12314 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA21267; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:00:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:00:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: Terry Lambert cc: jbryant@tfs.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ? In-Reply-To: <199709082242.PAA16151@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > 2) If /opt is used, there is an ABI problem with installation > of third party packaged wor SunOS/Solaris on FreeBSD boxes > as part of an install into a SunOS/Solaris ABI environment; > speficially, how do you tell /opt/cc for /opt/cc? I dont think using /opt would be a good idea, not only is it normally laid-out a little different than most people seem to want, but it would also imply Solaris-isms.. *shrug* (this is a bad thing for me, but I have bad SunOS experience). The more I think about it, having the name be 'pkg' and it located wherever (/pkg or /usr/pkg, perhaps configurable as you specified for /opt) would be pretty nice, and have the file/dir structure as (keep in mind, this is only for packages/ports): /pkg/bin /usr/local/bin /pkg/sbin /usr/local/sbin /pkg/etc /usr/local/etc /pkg/man /usr/local/man /pkg/db /var/db/pkg /pkg/src (?) /usr/ports Etc.. the points on the right are where things currently reside.. -Brandon Gillespie