Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:41:05PM -0400, Richard Tibbetts wrote: > > For what its worth, debian doesn't seem to really use /opt. At least > > not for debian packages, which tend to put their stuff right in /usr. > > I do like the idea of following the freebsd (i think net and open bsd may do > this too) convention of putting everything that's not part of base in > /usr/local/whatever - debian tends to put stuff in /usr for the most part - > most of the debian systems i've worked on have barely anything in /usr/local
NetBSD actually puts everything "third party" that's built with pkgsrc into /usr/pkg/ (or for some things /usr/X11R6, which is hated by many people). /usr/local is reserved for "local" things built by the local administrator. > it is annoying tho when you have something that's installed locally but is > also part of the base system (ie bind, ssh or whatever) as it's pretty hard > (afaik) to remove a package that's part of the base system in bsd. NetBSD doesn't, for better or worse (well for worse) have "base system" packages. At the moment, we have a base system and we have packages of third party stuff added on top of that. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
