From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 15:28:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fear.net (fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7C237B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@fear.net) Received: from fear.net (matt@fear.net [207.180.208.7]) by fear.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11760; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:29:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:29:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas (Matt) Barton" To: Mike Meyer Cc: Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <15076.41600.510678.517464@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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