From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 14:45:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60BF537B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 75273 invoked by uid 100); 23 Apr 2001 21:45:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15076.41600.510678.517464@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:45:36 -0500 To: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <4487905@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas (Matt) Barton 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. 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