From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 07:19:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA19697 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 07:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA19686 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 07:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id QAA18561 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:15:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00275; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:04:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970907160423.39071@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:04:23 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: what do you think ... should/could ports move to -> /usr/local/ports ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! I'm just repartitioning my system. When thinking about a new disk layout and partitioning I came to the conclusion, that putting the ports collection to /usr/local/ports would be cleaner, than using /usr/ports. I think /usr should only contain stuff, that actually belong to the basic system. Sometimes there are situations, where I want to recursively remove the whole ports tree and this lasts so long, that I use the async mount option. But I don't feel well, since I then use async on the complete /usr file system... It might hurt the basic OS if things go wrong (power fail ...). IMHO best would be to make /usr so large, that it fits the normal /usr filesystem contents and to put /usr/local into a separate filesystem together with the ports, which is the ,basis' of /usr/local. Would it be a big thing to move it to /usr/local ? Or is this an religious issue ? Would be fine, if the standard installation would install the ports into this /usr/local/ports target ... Just some thoughts, not a big deal ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html