Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:13:09 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Matt Fioravante <fmatthew5876@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports to /usr Message-ID: <20071114181309.GA53731@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> References: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Matt Fioravante wrote:
> Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
> instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
> binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
It's not safe, for the reasons that you have specified.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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