On a serious note, what I'd change about FreeBSD hier(7)

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 14:00:14 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Timo Buhrmester wrote:
> > > I'd pretty much want to have all non-base stuff into somewhere else
> > > than /usr/local. I like NetBSD installing ports in /usr/pkg (or
> > > whenever you want set your $PREFIX to). I'd rather have /usr/local for
> > > my own personal software and avoid it messing up with official ports.
> > 
> > Same here.  I have a single FreeBSD machine in an ocean of NetBSD and
> > Linux so every now and then I'll install something without stopping to
> > recall that I'm on the FreeBSD machine.  It hurts every time to undo
> > the installation, especially when what was installed collided with
> > an installed port.
> > 
> > Maybe I should write a make wrapper that detects whether I'm in
> > /usr/local and goes Abort, Retry, Ignore?...
> 
> Same here too.  Except for the old DOS Abort, Retry, Ignore part!

So how about YES / NO / ALL instead? :-)



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