From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 6 18:46:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948F637B425 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0137.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.137] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16YeZt-0003lT-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:46:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C61EA79.8FDA5945@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:46:17 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin.Lyons@kvaerner.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Historical /usr/local References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin.Lyons@kvaerner.com wrote: > Does anyone know the reason we have a /usr/local and a /usr? /usr/local > would seem to be implied. THis was just discussed. o To permit /usr to be NFS mounted read only. o To permit /usr/local to be a shared "application store" from a central server (also read-only). o "/usr/local" is less ugly than "/opt". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message