standard locations for port files

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 31 Aug, 2017, at 13:54, <scratch65535 at att.net> <scratch65535 at att.net> wrote:
> 
> [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.

It is predictable. You can predict that logs will in /var.

# Adam


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