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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:13:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig finding libraries, but ld is not.
Message-ID:  <199911112213.RAA34417@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <14378.28246.28493.440833@guru.phone.net>

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On 11-Nov-99 Mike Meyer wrote:
> I still curse at regular intervals at the ports/packages collection
> installing things in /usr/local. That means I need another place for
> things that I maintain, instead of came with FreeBSD. Putting
> everything in /usr is one such solution. /opt is another (but having
> everything have it's own hierarchy pretty much sucks).

Try maintaining a lab of 40-80 identical machines.  Then imagine
distributing /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 via NFS.  Then you only have to
install the package on one machine to install it everywhere.  That
doesn't work when installed under /usr.  Are you enlightened yet?

>       <mike

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