Ian Bruene via devel writes: > Did people just not usually use /usr/local/ much in the Eldar Days?
I can't tell you what people did, but on SunOS I did install GNU stuff like multiple versions of gcc and emacs there, but not xntpd (the predecessor of ntpd). The whole /usr/local thing was much more common on BSD derived systems anyway, SysV derived like Solaris were more likely to use /opt/<pkg> for the same purpose. There were and still are quite complicated setups that allow to physically install things into different locations and then make them logically appear in other places, usually for the purpose of having mutually exclusive programs available on a single system anyway (the alternatives system is one of the saner examples of this). Now, even if things get installed into some other locations than where the system usually expects them, they still need to know about the _system_ libraries and executables that they depend on and those will be reachable via their system path. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
