From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 5 4:20:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F7837B401 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D8B43E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g65BK5JU097430 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g65BK5vh097429; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 04:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200207051120.g65BK5vh097429@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Igor Sobrado Subject: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Reply-To: Igor Sobrado Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/40222; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Igor Sobrado To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert Cc: Igor Sobrado , freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 13:15:49 +0200 > apart from gzip and bzip2 (and for 4-S perl) being part of the base > system, you may want to try /usr/local. this is where ports get > installed and it's the perfectly right place to add your own binaries or > files. Simon, I am thinking about avoiding problems with FreeBSD in the future. See what happened to Solaris (I sent a description of this problem, that I hope will arrive without problems to the freebsd-gnats-submit mailing list.) It is possible changing those binaries. But it is not a good idea having two copies (with a different behavior) of some binary in system directories that are provided in each PATH environment variable. Different users will see different behaviors as a consequence of having those paths in another order! What about system behaviour? Changing those binaries in /usr/bin (a very bad answer to the problem) will change the operating system behavior. It will be very hard to diagnose a problem on a remote BSD installation. Cheers! Igor. -- Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message