Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:16:55 -0600 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: coredump@nervosa.com, pst@shockwave.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/libexec vs /usr/local/sbin Message-ID: <199602161416.IAA24003@tick.SSEC.WISC.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:21:13 PST." <199602152221.OAA03676@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>
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> * Well in that case, the identd port needs to be update, ill email the > * maintainer, still wondering about the man pages though. > > The manpages are in /usr/local/man for historical reasons. We've been > shipping an /etc/manpath.config with "/usr/local/man" for ages and it > will be too much of a pain to change it now. Also, virtually no > third-party software installs man pages in /usr/local/share/man, which > means we have to go patch the 400+ ports. /usr/local has historically been for software that's local to one machine. If a directory is going to be shared among several machines and thus has a need for a "share" subdirectory, it should probably be named something other than "/usr/local".
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