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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 18:22:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
Cc:        Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970908182142.26741B-100000@shell.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908111815.19593A-100000@roguetrader.com>

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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Brian Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Lutz Albers wrote:
> > 
> > what about /usr/contrib like bsd/os?
> 
> its no different than /usr/local, just a different name.

It is. They have /usr/local as well, which is unpopulated. /usr/contrib is
for contributed software on the cd but not maintained by bsdi. This is the
same situation the ports collection is in.

> 
> I think the main issue here is that people feel /usr/local/ should be a
> different fs (I agree), but many feel its unclean to mount from anything
> other than root.
> 
> Suggestion: mount it on /local, and symlink /usr/local to /local..
> 
> -Brandon
> 
> 




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