Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:29:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" <matt@fear.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104231728370.6614-100000@fear.net> In-Reply-To: <15076.41600.510678.517464@guru.mired.org>
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. I'm mainly happy that it just put it all in one place by default and I can worry about more important things. It makes it convenient. Just out of curiosity, though, what are the advantages about NetBSD using /usr/pkgs instead of /usr/local? -- Matt Barton matt@fear.net Indianapolis, IN http://www.mattbarton.ws/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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