From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 6 20:48:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8C4837B41C for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:48:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21418 invoked by uid 100); 7 Feb 2002 04:48:13 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15458.1805.303462.289494@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:48:13 -0600 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Historical /usr/local In-Reply-To: <3C61EBB7.CC2CC725@mindspring.com> References: <3C61EBB7.CC2CC725@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert types: > Kevin.Lyons@kvaerner.com wrote: > > OK. /usr/sbin/named would be third-party. a "developed locally" example is > > a system adminstrator who writes a utility for his machine and should put it > > there? > No, named is not "third party". FreeBSD is an OEM with > regard to named (i.e. it is distributed as part of the > OS). My touchstone question is "Where do the local support people go for help if something is wrong with it?" If the answer is "The system vendors support mechanisms", then it belongs in /usr. Otherwise, it goes in /usr/local. If you have a problem with named on FreeBSD, you go to the FreeBSD lists. I claim that this puts ports in the /usr category, but that's a different flame war. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message