From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 19:30:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F18816A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spam1.snu.ac.kr (spam2.snu.ac.kr [147.46.10.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16B0743FE9 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lahaye@snu.ac.kr) Received: (snipe 5000 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2003 03:00:40 -0000 Received: from lahaye@snu.ac.kr with Spamsniper2.0 (Processed in 0.053690 secs); Received: from unknown (HELO sis1.snu.ac.kr) (147.46.10.36) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2003 03:00:40 -0000 X-RCPTTO: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Received: from snu.ac.kr ([147.46.44.183]) by sis1.snu.ac.kr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8N2TPLX055562 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:29:25 +0900 Message-ID: <3F6FB041.4050005@snu.ac.kr> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:30:25 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye Organization: Seoul National University - South Korea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030726 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ko-kr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <200309220850.13662.andy@athame.co.uk> <200309230836.31602.davidxu@FreeBSD.org> <1064278184.674.316.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <1064278184.674.316.camel@leguin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Why is KDE installing in LOCALBASE; not X11BASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:30:26 -0000 Eric Anholt wrote: > >>>It's all down to your interpretation of the above segment of hier(7) >>>really. >>> >>>Me? I don't care, and I'm not going to bikeshed the issue. > > Basically, this is a bikeshed I don't want to mess with, and I > personally hope nobody else messes with. Related to hier and disk partitions, I have a more practical viewpoint. I consider my FreeBSD system to consists of roughly five parts: 1) the base system (/usr) 2) X11 (/usr/X11R6) 3) the ports (/usr/local) 4) personal files (/home) 5) maintainance (/tmp, /var, swap, etc.) What I like of FreeBSD is the clear separation between 'base-system' and 'supporting software in the ports'. In f.ex. most Linux distros, this is totally messed up. I usually make a separate partition for /usr/local (I also could for /usr/X11R6, but never do that), and of course for /tmp, /var, /home). Choosing appropriate sizes for the partitions, is then easier, I believe. /usr : The base system is more or less fixed (varying whether you want sources or not, recompile world & kernel etc.). /usr/X11R6 : is fixed, if exclusively X11 ports go here. /usr/local : varies per user, what sort of additional software is desired. This would plead to move all non-X11 stuff from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local !! Regards, Rob.