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Date:      Wed, 02 Apr 1997 13:12:20 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/ssh/pkg PLIST 
Message-ID:  <199704020512.NAA11662@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Apr 1997 09:37:55 MST." <199704011639.JAA17054@pluto.plutotech.com> 

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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> >> We *really* need to finalize how we want to deal with shared /usr/local
> >> stuff, this insistance that /usr/local is unique is short-sighted.
> >
> >Wouldn't it be useful to have /var/local as well as /usr/local.  Machine
> >unique stuff like ssh keys etc. can go in /var/local and shared stuff can
> >go in /usr/local.
> 
> Perhaps we should be discussing better names for all of this as the NetBSD
> folks are.  If local is not really local, why call it local?  This would 
> imply that /usr/local/etc/ would be availible to DTRT for these kinds of
> cases, but everything else goes into /opt.  I actually don't like "/opt"
> since it clashes with things that Solaris has done, but I'm coming to see
> why having all of this stuff in /usr/local/ is becoming silly or difficult
> in clustered configurations.

I like /usr/local/*, /var/local/*, /etc/local/*, with what used to go under
/usr/local/etc moved to /etc/local, and /usr/local/var/
 -> /var/local/.  I do this with symlinks on all our clustered machines for
ports compatability which makes things a lot easier (except /usr/local/var
doesn't seem to be used).

> --
> Justin T. Gibbs
> ===========================================
>   FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
> ===========================================
> 

Cheers,
-Peter





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