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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan Beich)
Cc: bapt@FreeBSD.org,  arch@FreeBSD.org,  ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ?
References: <20170308190351.23C5470F2@freefall.freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:32:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20170308190351.23C5470F2@freefall.freebsd.org> (Jan Beich's
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jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan Beich) writes:
> /usr/local is *the* default location according to GNU[1] and reinforced
> by FHS[2] which want it "safe from being overwritten when the system
> software is updated". Not on FreeBSD where site-local stuff like your
> example above and ports/packages trample on each other. NetBSD avoided
> the issue by moving /usr/local to /usr/pkg.

All correct, but I don't really see the relevance...

DE
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