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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:52:43 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?
Message-ID:  <20000823095243.N8055@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000823074637.A42348@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:46:37AM -0700
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:46:37AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> Yes, local stuff.  IMHO, the Ports Collection using /usr/local was the
> biggest mistake of it.  The ports collection should have used /usr/pkg/
> as NetBSD does.  I have to create /usr/truely-local on my FreeBSD
> machines.

So let's change the default?  It seems a sensible idea to me - only one
question: what about X11BASE?

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