From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 19:40:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AF016A417 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251E013C46E for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:40:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id 7DA0316B90D; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.77]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C72A016B780; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:01 -0600 (CST) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:38:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:38:26 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Matt Fioravante In-Reply-To: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20071114133802.M51192@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <3eca10930711141005m5ceb5d8bve7a1b6f235057342@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=10.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,OACYS_SINGLE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 version=2.43 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports to /usr X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:40:04 -0000 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 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? I know of a few name conflicts that can occur in certain circumstances (such as the system lpr and hplip lpr). You may be lucky and avoid these. It is also possible that some ports will not find one another or that wrong locations may be hard coded --- this should not happen, but there should not be any broken ports, unfetchable sources and so forth. Such an arrangement would require extreme vigilance, beyond what the ports management software can do (if they can be persuaded to work at all in such an environment). I cannot think of a good reason to do what you want to do, but you ought to be very clear that somehow there is no other way and be prepared for the consequences. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266