From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 24 12:49:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB9A37B423 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA28213; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:49:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:49:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008241949.VAA28213@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: <8o3rt2$26j7$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-current Warner Losh wrote: > In message <14141.967034676@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes: > : On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:36:56 +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > : > : > Just wondering: what is the reason of using /opt instead of /usr/local, > : > apart from Solaris influence? Do you use /usr/local for anything? > : > : NetBSD uses /usr/opt . It's a matter of taste. :-) > > NetBSD uses /usr/pkg. Just as a side note (I'm not a comitter)... At the university we use /rzdist/FreeBSD for historical reasons. That directory is distributed via rdist to several servers, and then exported via NFS to clients. Of course, there's also /rzdist/linux and others. /usr/local is only used for "real" locally installed software. It is true that there are quite a lot of ports that don't support PREFIXes different from /usr/local correctly. I know, I should have send-pr'ed all of them, but that would have taken me several days... I promise to do it next time I stumble across some, I promise. :-) Even more off-topic: On our Solaris boxes, we use /opt for external packages (such as those that come from Sun itself, like the compiler suite SUNWspro), and we use /usr/local for software that we install ourself manually, i.e. not from a ready-made package. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message