Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:45:40 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On a serious note, what I'd change about FreeBSD hier(7) Message-ID: <20200506214540.247500820cf8701968ac01c9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHyB66K16JHFPcabfyoWoNT=GGFjFJ0wfqpDB27CYidnzA@mail.gmail.com> References: <83788746a7d8a802d8af4b582e00827166febd1a.camel@tom.com> <20200506172115.cb3b572b.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAEJNuHyB66K16JHFPcabfyoWoNT=GGFjFJ0wfqpDB27CYidnzA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 6 May 2020 18:21:59 +0100 Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:21, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > > FreeBSD's general organisation keeps all non-OS stuff stored > > in /usr/local; the directories owned by the OS have a specific > > purpose which is reflected by their name and location > > > I'd pretty much want to have all non-base stuff into somewhere else > than /usr/local. Why ? /usr/local is explicitly for non-base stuff so what would go in there ? > I like NetBSD installing ports in /usr/pkg (or > whenever you want set your $PREFIX to). I'd rather have /usr/local for > my own personal software and avoid it messing up with official ports. Why fight the system when you could just have /usr/personal or /site or /opt or something for your own stuff without changing existing conventions. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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