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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ? Date: 6 Jan 1997 23:36:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5as2ad$62r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <stanbE2z02s.BIK@netcom.com> <59rvb3$1nm@klemm.gtn.com> <5a4t9e$5b2@nr1.vancouver.istar.net> <stanbE36GJD.2GL@netcom.com> <32C77531.41C67EA6@medinet.si> <E3K8o5.9nr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33739 richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > /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!). See David O'Brien's response. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)