When do binaries get removed?

[Adam Vande More]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Michael D. Norwick <mnorwick at centurytel.net
> wrote:

> Good evening;
>
> When building and installing an application from ports, how does the
> original binary or script, in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/etc..., from the
> distribution, get removed?


It doesn't.


> The make install foo command does not appear to symlink the original
> application location to the new one in /usr/local/whatever.  Does it even
> matter?
>

 What is your end goal?  man hier(7) if you want to know where things live.

This contains a simple method to to build a FreeBSD gui install.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212899.html

FreeBSD documentation isn't like Debian, if you follow the handbook exactly
and completely, it nearly always works.

-- 
Adam Vande More