Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:02:37 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020313100237.GX63612@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100 > From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100 > > > From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! > > > > > There is a hierarchy that FreeBSD uses, the only minorly controversial point, > > > that I believe gets discussed at every level from time to time over the > > > years is the use of "/usr/local". This is really a semantic problem, in > > > that "local" implies for a lot of people, their own "stuff" .. i.e. > > > programs, scripts docs etc that they produce themselves. In FreeBSD it > > > is the home of installed programs that are not part of the base > > > distribution, viz. "ports". (Forgetting about X11 for a moment which > > > plays by it's own rules). You can change this I believe if you really > > > want to. > > > > Yes. You could put e. g. "LOCAL_BASE=/opt" in /etc/make.conf. ummm. s/LOCAL_BASE/LOCALBASE/ -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 11:01AM up 13 days, 12:08, 20 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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