Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:07:40 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation Message-ID: <14899.47196.795281.662619@zircon.seattle.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org> References: <14898.33404.356173.963351@guru.mired.org> <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012091347030.88984-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <200012100904.CAA27546@harmony.village.org> <3A336781.94E1646@newsguy.com> <14899.41809.754369.259894@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer writes: > If memory serves (and it may not at this remove), /usr/local/bin > wasn't on my path until I started using VAXen, meaning there were few > or no packages installing in /usr/local on v6 & v7 on the 11s. If you remember v6 and v7, then please enumerate the packages which installed in /opt on those systems. All "packages" I am aware of from the v6/v7 era installed in /usr or in /usr/local, although I am sort of fuzzy on the exact derivation of /usr/local at this point in time. I do recall having a /usr/local on my V6 PDP-11/40, but it could have been contamination leaking over from the 32V system. I do remember the abomination of /usr/ucb which put binaries in /usr/ucb but also included /usr/ucb/lib, etc. I always hated that structure. I know that we made extensive use of /usr/local in 1983 on 4.1bsd, especially in installing software taken from Usenet, so I think that /usr/local really started with extensive use of Usenet distribution, which was coincident with wide-spread use of BSD on VAXen. As far as I remember, I never encountered the use of /opt until Solaris. /Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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