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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 11:19:41 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
To:        Brian Mitchell <brian@firehouse.net>
Cc:        Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908111815.19593A-100000@roguetrader.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970908063722.24543A-100000@shell.firehouse.net>

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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Brian Mitchell wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Lutz Albers wrote:
> 
> what about /usr/contrib like bsd/os?

its no different than /usr/local, just a different name.

I think the main issue here is that people feel /usr/local/ should be a
different fs (I agree), but many feel its unclean to mount from anything
other than root.

Suggestion: mount it on /local, and symlink /usr/local to /local..

-Brandon




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