Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:24:51 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016454292.b027a0@mired.org> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest! Message-ID: <15503.17683.841194.643911@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313100237.GX63612@roman.mobil.cz> References: <20020311161604.05a35bc5.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173458.GA721@hades.hell.gr> <20020312143434.GD1577@raggedclown.net> <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz> <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net> <20020313100237.GX63612@roman.mobil.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> types: > > From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > > 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 <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> > > > > 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/ Right. I use LOCALBASE=/usr/opt in /etc/make.conf, and regularly have to fix and report ports that don't deal with this situation :-(. The reason it should be moved is that if you want LOCALBASE to be /usr/local, you can do it with a symlink. Those of us who want to use /usr/local for other things can't undo that. As a result, you find the strange situation that a number of my systems have a symlink from /usr/opt to /usr/local - or vice versa - so that I can build on that system with minimal troubles, and also build packages for it on my build system with LOCALBASE set to /usr/opt. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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