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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <E3K8o5.9nr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <5a4t9e$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net> <stanbE36GJD.2GL@netcom.com> <32C77531.41C67EA6@medinet.si> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:14:29 GMT Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33670 In article <32C77531.41C67EA6@medinet.si> Blaz Zupan <blaz.zupan@medinet.si> writes: >FreeBSD does *NOT* put anything in /usr/local. Only the optional >packages (the ones from the ports collection) are installed >in /usr/local. /usr/local is the right place for "local" >additions. Unfortunately, the stuff that comes by default, the ports, and local additions are three different things, with only two places to put them. /usr/local is indeed the right place for *local* software. It would have been much better if the ports installed somewhere else (such as /usr/ports!). -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"