Where should "contrib" scripts and utilities be installed?

[Sahil Tandon]

Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote:

> When some project includes a contrib/ directory with its source where 
> should those canonically be installed?
>
>     /usr/local/share/$PORT
>
> or
>
>    /usr/local/share/doc/$PORT
>
> or someplace else.
>
> In particular, I'm planing on submitting a patch to sysutils/rsnapshot port 
> to also install, somewhere, the contrib directly that comes out of the 
> tarball.
          
The existence of ports with a "-contrib" suffix suggests you may need to 
create a distinct port for the contrib files.  databases/postgresql-contrib, 
for example.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>