standard locations for port files

[scratch65535 at att.net]

[Default] On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:53:27 -0500, Adam Vande More
<amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:41 PM, <scratch65535 at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Why wouldn't  logs be in /usr/local/var/...?  Given that all
>> other port "stuff" is under /usr/local, what advantage is there
>> in making logs an exception?
>>
>
>Because logs shouldn't be under /usr.

Why not?  The current location wasn't determined by natural law,
it was just someone's decision, almost certainly made without
much thought at all.  It could be re-decided just as easily.  

There are many advantages to predictability that usually go
unappreciated because of how pervasive it is in our everyday
lives.  To take a somewhat trivial example, we know to look for
cream in the milk case rather than the ice-cream case even  if
we'd never shopped in that particular supermarket before,  I'm
sure you could come up with thousands of similar ways in which
your life is effortlessly made easier by predictability.