Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:33:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: matt@fear.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <200104240533.f3O5Xr304341@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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Thomas (Matt) Barton writes: > Another great thing about the ports collection is that everything > gets installed in /usr/local. I don't have to worry about /etc > getting cluttered, as well as /bin, /usr/sbin, etc. There are a > few exceptions, of course, such as qmail which goes to /var/qmail, > but that is about it. Every FHS-compliant Linux distribution reserves /usr/local for _you_ to use. It is for _local_ stuff only. Doesn't this make sense? If you compile a home-grown or self-ported app for FreeBSD, where would you put it? I hope you don't dump it in /usr/local with all the stuff provided by FreeBSD! It looks like you need a /usr/local/local or /usr/local_I_REALLY_MEAN_IT for this. Putting emacs under /usr/local is a relic from the days when you'd buy a real UNIX system without emacs. It made sense, since you were installing local (your site) additions. Now you get emacs on a CD-ROM along with the rest of your OS. Why worry about /etc becoming "cluttered" anyway? You only push the problem into another location. Now /usr/local/etc is cluttered. If you simply want to cut the "/bin/ls" output in half, then you might do better with /1/etc /2/etc /3/etc... but why at all? If performance is a problem, work on the filesystem. If being hard to glance over is a problem, you don't gain anything by having more places for junk to collect. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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