On 16-7-2021 18:46, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 09:01 -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
FreeBSD has always placed /usr/local/X after /usr/X in the default PATH.
AFAICT that convention began with SVN revision 37 "Initial import of 386BSD
0.1 othersrc/etc". Why is that? It would make sense to me that
/usr/local/X should come first. That way programs installed from ports can
override FreeBSD's defaults. Is there a good reason for this convention,
or is it just inertia?
-Alan
I have a hierarchy on my machines rooted at /local and /local/bin is
before /bin and /usr/bin in my PATH, so I can override system tools
when I explicitly want to without suffering any problems of an
unexpected override from installing a port or package.
If you're using ports as a development environment to work on a new
gstat replacement, you could do something similar and put PREFIX=/local
in your port makefile while you're developing on it.
+1
Cannot recall running into any issues over a long time.
I'm only annoyed by having to fix access to installed ports when this
reorder
is not done...
Perhaps just don't do this for root?
--WjW
