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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:50:58 +0200
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
Subject: Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to ->
 /usr/local/ports ?
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Andreas Klemm wrote on 08.09.1997
  Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /u


>> How about (shudder) following the
>> System V example and mounting them on /opt?
>
>The pure System V R4 example follows the idea:
>
>	/opt/<package>/{bin,lib,man,...}
>not
>	/opt/{bin,lib,man}
>
...
>Would have the disadvantage to have many many bin subdirs and
>youd have to symlink everything into a global
>	/opt/bin
>	/opt/include
>	/opt/lib
>	/opt/man
>	/opt/info

Or use the modules system (see <http://www.modules.org>). You would use the
command
	module add <package>
to add it to PATH, and
	module delete <package>
to remove it.

A much more cleaner method than the trash heap called /usr/local :-)

ciao
  lutz

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