From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 3 03:01:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09362 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 03:01:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA09357 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 03:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 6983 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jan 1999 10:58:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19990103105843.6982.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 20:58:43 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /usr/local/bin [was: Re: executable scripts] References: In-reply-to: of Sat, 02 Jan 1999 18:06:14 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > As an aside from someone not new to Unix, I don't put commands in > /usr/local on FreeBSD by hand - because /usr/ports builds into > it. Instead, I put them in an install directory on a custom fs, and > symlink the commands back to /usr/local/bin. I'm just playing with an initial install of FreeBSD for the first time and had noticed the way ports polluted /usr/local which I have always considered to be *mine*. I've noted that BSDI use /usr/contrib for the sort of stuff that FreeBSD puts in /usr/local, and that seems more sensible to me if there is really a reason not to put these things in /usr/bin. Anyway, my question is: is there some way to have the ports put into some other prefix than /usr/local so that it can be used as expected? Or do we have to reinvent /usr/local with some less intuitive name? -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message