From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 14:55:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA05577 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 May 1995 14:55:09 -0700 Received: from spider.cris.crimea.ua (spider.cris.crimea.ua [193.124.53.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05545 for ; Sat, 27 May 1995 14:53:46 -0700 Received: from wind.UUCP (uuwind@localhost) by spider.cris.crimea.ua (8.6.10/8.6.10.1) with UUCP id BAA06719 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 28 May 1995 01:51:52 +0400 Received: from unicorn.ww.net (unicorn.ww.net [193.124.73.40]) by sunset.ww.net (8.6.11/0.0.0) with ESMTP id AAA10495 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 00:24:00 +0400 Received: (from alexis@localhost) by unicorn.ww.net (8.6.11/1.0) id AAA23918 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 28 May 1995 00:21:28 +0400 Message-Id: <199505272021.AAA23918@unicorn.ww.net> Subject: /usr/local filetree and ports question To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 00:21:28 +0000 (WET DST) From: "Alexis Yushin" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1401 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My knowledges may be out of date, but every FreeBSD port I saw before used /usr/local/lib directory for its libraries. The question is why it is so, instead of placing, for example IRC files into /usr/local/share/IRC instead of /usr/local/lib/IRC following, thus, the original BSD filtree philosophy. For example, I think that elm.rc should go into /usr/local/etc but its help files would go into /usr/local/share/misc or just /usr/local/share. I don't have a strong point about local manual pages, but I think it is likely that /usr/local/share/man is the right place for them. Well, then thinking about lets say inn, I think that its binaries would go into /usr/local/libexec (innd etc) /usr/local/bin (frontends) and /usr/local/libexec/news or innd (backends and utilities) The thing described above would, as I suppose, enhace the structure of the whole FreeBSD. Please let me know if I'm wrong. I made such adjustments at my FreeBSD-950322-SNAP boxes and they make me happy now. So, again, I would be just crazy to hear any other philosophical views. alexis P.S. I'm not sure if I'm on the hackers list now -- it is up to majordomo admin (I subscribed local alias instead of me, so they must be checking now), so please mail to me directly: alexis@ww.net -- So much ado my lover So many games we played Through every fleeted summer Through every precious day...