I think I have written here previously that I want to move my _server_ to FreeBSD. I am still thinking about that. But now I hit an obstacle. For a long time, I have put my local kiddie scripts in /usr/local. For better or worse, they are written in my dense style where any code duplication is avoided, and so they call one another a lot.
But as you know FreeBSD directory hierarchy is different: /usr/local is for Packages and Ports. I must move my scripts somewhere else to not conflict with P & P. So the first problem is to come up with a location. What does a typical BSD admin do in this situation? I don't want to put them in my home directory because they're general purpose; at the very least I use them both as root and as an unprivileged user. A more serious problem is how to find all the situations where /usr/local is baked in. It's not as simple as grep because when I could, I relied on the implicit PATH which would be configured somewhere else, or it might not even be configured - it might be compiled in (I think this is the case for some programs in the shadow package, and perhaps PAM modules). I don't think I can expect a simple answer, but if you ever faced such transition yourself, how did you approach it? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
