From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 11:50:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806B537B404 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:50:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16ksHq-000PXO-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:50:18 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 7BFE113040 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id F05DE22597; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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. > > > But if you go with the current hierarchy then the only thing you have to > > consider is what to do with your really local, local stuff :). > > Or you could install your really local, local stuff to /opt or > /local... I don't like the commingling of user dirs with the std. > hierarchy as described below. But that's just me. > I think you just choose what you find easiest to work with. Your scheme is also a good idea..mine is the lazy way, since my backup scripts just backup everything in /home unless I explicitly exclude any directory. > > I simply have an equivalent hierarchy under /home, i.e. > > /home/bin > > /home/sbin > > /home/etc > > ...and so on > > -- > FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE > 4:56PM up 12 days, 18:04, 17 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.19, 0.16 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message