Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:20:24 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: phk@freebsd.org, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: misc/355: policy on /usr/local permission in base release Message-ID: <200109101820.f8AIKOR76733@dotar-sojat.thuvia.org>
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phk> I think this one has been overtaken by events, in particular phk> the existence of the ports-collection makes this somewhat surreal... Actually this is one of the few reasons I almost completely avoid the standard packages, because of what they do to my /usr/local, which I've maintained on many platforms according to my own policies for a decade and a half. I maintain a one-line patch to BSD.usr.dist and generally never install packages (until now the exception being linux_base, which doesn't touch /usr/local). I just got bitten by this policy conflict by (dumbly) installing the cvsup port (I guess I must have just untarred the bits I needed from previous versions), and my /usr/local permissions are hosed once again. :-( It sure makes a big difference to me being able to install things like netscape into /usr/local without having to trust random install scripts to run as root. If only FreeBSD "vendor" packages had installed to /usr/pkg or /usr/opt... Since this isn't likely to go away, I guess it's finally time for me to pick up and move all my own stuff out of its rightful place, /usr/local, and hope that I don't meet a third party binary which insists on installing there. (Thankfully I already use /usr/gnu for much local software, and /usr/<vendor> for proprietary packages.) Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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