standard locations for port files

[Jonathan Chen]

On 1 September 2017 at 07:54,  <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.

That particular decision was made decades ago that logs are expected
to live in /var/log; and re-deciding that decision would break
predictably on all BSD based systems.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>