From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 10:32:32 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:32:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EE9037B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22161 invoked by uid 100); 9 Dec 2000 18:32:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14898.31421.483464.779920@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:32:29 -0600 (CST) To: "Jack Juil Harris, Jr." Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Directory In-Reply-To: <129686710@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jack Juil Harris, Jr. types: > There are plenty of good applications that are not part of "Packages" > Where is a good place to install them? > /usr/local ? > /usr/home/ ? > /usr/local/etc ? > /usr/local/share ? Depends on the goal. Personally, I build ports into /usr/opt, and install the non-port applications in /usr/local (which is a mounted file system, not part of /usr, and has a different backup policy). Another solution is to make a port for them in ~/src/ports. and then install that. You can also submit the port via send-pr to give back to the community. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message