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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/


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