From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Aug 31 20:06:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC7EE04F3C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96E7657D2 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id C88DCE04F3B; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80F8E04F3A for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: from apnoea.adamw.org (apnoea.adamw.org [104.225.5.94]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "apnoea.adamw.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 148AC657D1 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@adamw.org) Received: by apnoea.adamw.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 8220b7f3 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:06:07 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: standard locations for port files From: Adam Weinberger In-Reply-To: <76pgqcptlcrvhuavu1bquknbbdfr8n0cdf@4ax.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:06:06 -0600 Cc: Adam Vande More , freebsd-ports Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <59A82622.4030502@gmail.com> <729F1CC6-9A65-4CDF-B7E5-FB520779FD15@adamw.org> <76pgqcptlcrvhuavu1bquknbbdfr8n0cdf@4ax.com> To: scratch65535@att.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:06:14 -0000 > On 31 Aug, 2017, at 13:54, = wrote: >=20 > [Default] On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:53:27 -0500, Adam Vande More > wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:41 PM, 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