Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 19:20:03 -0600 From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On a serious note, what I'd change about FreeBSD hier(7) Message-ID: <20200512190812259650810@bob.proulx.com> In-Reply-To: <20200506214540.247500820cf8701968ac01c9@sohara.org> References: <83788746a7d8a802d8af4b582e00827166febd1a.camel@tom.com> <20200506172115.cb3b572b.freebsd@edvax.de> <CAEJNuHyB66K16JHFPcabfyoWoNT=GGFjFJ0wfqpDB27CYidnzA@mail.gmail.com> <20200506214540.247500820cf8701968ac01c9@sohara.org>
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Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > 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 ? What would go in /usr/local would be locally compiled applications that are outside of the base system, outside of the ports system, and are purely locally compiled from source programs. And anything else the local admin wanted to put 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. FreeBSD is the odd one out here in using /usr/local for system uses. In other systems, and I grew up on HP-UX, SunOS, old BSD, and so forth, have always reserved /usr/local for the local admin to populate. Using most from-source software the default install location is most typically /usr/local and therefore out of the box unless you fight with the upstream source locations (fighting with upstream really means overriding the default, I only said fighting because you did) then "make install" will typically install to /usr/local, potentially overwriting components from FreeBSD. Therefore on FreeBSD I use /local for those things. Which is defensible as perhaps being a better location. However to avoid potentially overwriting something in /usr/local I must reconfigure upstream source to avoid it each and every time. Bob
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