From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed May 6 20:45:48 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497242DF4C0 for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:45:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49HTBg0TT6z49vW for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 20:45:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1588797947; x=1591389947; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=cF1UE0I77L7w6pghB4qWF2cC9fu86LsxxrtIiaFHpSc=; b=ukY1qqh/Ly9M4pxLPVQFVG5ym2GaS4qwA9M5zol2BRW79E3QLGfa+6ItXr3DAyGPsXzhFBAgLgtENxSUbIsVSXrdRO9bIFsYDDDvnRDY7bgN44corRgG52nY/wPo2Wvu5/Ezqgcx6vKYxYZDmeTsWSDqmbDa04l59wGHuyHfi5c= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMTAwMDRlNmQ5ZjIuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r1.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r1.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.191.1]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 6 May 2020 16:45:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r1.us-east-1.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 6 May 2020 16:45:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jWQvE-000Lsb-Nc; Wed, 06 May 2020 21:45:40 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:45:40 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On a serious note, what I'd change about FreeBSD hier(7) Message-Id: <20200506214540.247500820cf8701968ac01c9@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <83788746a7d8a802d8af4b582e00827166febd1a.camel@tom.com> <20200506172115.cb3b572b.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49HTBg0TT6z49vW X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=ukY1qqh/; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.65 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.97)[-0.973,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; IP_SCORE(0.02)[ip: (-0.20), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(0.28), asn: 7381(0.08), country: US(-0.05)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c10004e6d9f2.4cd89bebc960d7692bc9e67b31443cf2@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[yahoo.com] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 20:45:48 -0000 On Wed, 6 May 2020 18:21:59 +0100 Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:21, Polytropon wrote: > > > > FreeBSD's general organisation keeps all non-OS stuff stored > > in /usr/local; the directories owned by the OS have a specific > > purpose which is reflected by their name and location > > > I'd pretty much want to have all non-base stuff into somewhere else > than /usr/local. Why ? /usr/local is explicitly for non-base stuff so what would go in there ? > I like NetBSD installing ports in /usr/pkg (or > whenever you want set your $PREFIX to). I'd rather have /usr/local for > my own personal software and avoid it messing up with official ports. Why fight the system when you could just have /usr/personal or /site or /opt or something for your own stuff without changing existing conventions. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith