cvsup-mirror rewrite

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Dec 15 11:20:40 PST 2004


On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:53:09PM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:

> - I do not have a hard opinion on where should be the default ${PREFIX}: 
> should it be /usr/local, as in FreeBSD, or simply /usr as in linux? 
> I've been using Unix since AT&T Unix Version 7 on PDP11/70, and 
> /usr/local has grown as a standard for *local* files, not system files. 
>  But are ports/packages local or system files?  In this sense, is 
> hier(7) already broken?

hier(7) is a FreeBSD standard and defines /usr/local as the place
where FreeBSD packages live.

Kris
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