From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 1:51:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F84E37B405 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2D9pXt07580 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:51:34 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.9a) with ESMTP id 2002031310450011:141 ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:45:00 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2DA2bM66933 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:02:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:02:37 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <20020313100237.GX63612@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/13/2002 10:45:00 AM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 03/13/2002 10:47:29 AM, Serialize complete at 03/13/2002 10:47:29 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > 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! > > 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. ummm. s/LOCAL_BASE/LOCALBASE/ -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 11:01AM up 13 days, 12:08, 20 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message