Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:06:06 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: scratch65535@att.net Cc: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: standard locations for port files Message-ID: <B9FB96B9-C8DA-41F5-8BDA-2D9C8CEA5F05@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <76pgqcptlcrvhuavu1bquknbbdfr8n0cdf@4ax.com> References: <59A82622.4030502@gmail.com> <729F1CC6-9A65-4CDF-B7E5-FB520779FD15@adamw.org> <dolgqcpv4ihqsjbas28v0bglrboat4po5c@4ax.com> <CA%2BtpaK2wFBV3-aUEYXQ3eVqMjxS2kE67G5uLVni=OEjiVe8MyA@mail.gmail.com> <76pgqcptlcrvhuavu1bquknbbdfr8n0cdf@4ax.com>
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> On 31 Aug, 2017, at 13:54, <scratch65535@att.net> = <scratch65535@att.net> wrote: >=20 > [Default] On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:53:27 -0500, Adam Vande More > <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:41 PM, <scratch65535@att.net> wrote: >>=20 >>> Why wouldn't logs be in /usr/local/var/...? Given that all >>> other port "stuff" is under /usr/local, what advantage is there >>> in making logs an exception? >>>=20 >>=20 >> Because logs shouldn't be under /usr. >=20 > Why not? The current location wasn't determined by natural law, > it was just someone's decision, almost certainly made without > much thought at all. It could be re-decided just as easily. =20 >=20 > There are many advantages to predictability that usually go > unappreciated because of how pervasive it is in our everyday > lives. To take a somewhat trivial example, we know to look for > cream in the milk case rather than the ice-cream case even if > we'd never shopped in that particular supermarket before, I'm > sure you could come up with thousands of similar ways in which > your life is effortlessly made easier by predictability. It is predictable. You can predict that logs will in /var. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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