Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:45:36 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <15076.41600.510678.517464@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4487905@toto.iv>
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Thomas (Matt) Barton <matt@fear.net> types: > Another great thing about the ports collection is that everything gets > installed in /usr/local. I don't have to worry about /etc getting > cluttered, as well as /bin, /usr/sbin, etc. There are a few exceptions, > of course, such as qmail which goes to /var/qmail, but that is about it. Actually, everything installs in /usr/local or /usr/X11R6, but only by default. You can change both of those defaults globally, and it works fairly well. Trying to change it for one package is pretty dicey. NetBSD choice of putting things in /usr/pkgs (or some such) instead of /usr/local has some advantages. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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