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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:20:39 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup-mirror rewrite
Message-ID:  <20041215192039.GB67103@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41C08815.3070003@jonny.eng.br>
References:  <20041207231019.GL79919@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <XFMail.20041207193827.jdp@polstra.com> <20041208082000.GP79919@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <41B730B5.5040100@jonny.eng.br> <20041208224605.GU79919@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <41B860DA.5080309@jonny.eng.br> <20041211123553.GM79919@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <41C08815.3070003@jonny.eng.br>

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:53:09PM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:

> - I do not have a hard opinion on where should be the default ${PREFIX}:=
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> should it be /usr/local, as in FreeBSD, or simply /usr as in linux?=20
> I've been using Unix since AT&T Unix Version 7 on PDP11/70, and=20
> /usr/local has grown as a standard for *local* files, not system files.=
=20
>  But are ports/packages local or system files?  In this sense, is=20
> hier(7) already broken?

hier(7) is a FreeBSD standard and defines /usr/local as the place
where FreeBSD packages live.

Kris
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