Matt Fioravante wrote:
> Well I was just comtemplating the idea of setting up a freebsd load at
> my workplace. They already run linux and solaris and because of bad
> decisions in the past, they mount their afs shares on /usr/local. So I
> would have to install ports in /usr or some other prefix.
Matt Fioravante writes:
> Well I was just comtemplating the idea of setting up a freebsd
> load at my workplace. They already run linux and solaris and
> because of bad decisions in the past, they mount their afs shares
> on /usr/local. So I would have to install ports in /usr or some
> othe
Well I was just comtemplating the idea of setting up a freebsd load at
my workplace. They already run linux and solaris and because of bad
decisions in the past, they mount their afs shares on /usr/local. So I
would have to install ports in /usr or some other prefix.
On Nov 14, 2007 2:38 PM, Lars
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Matt Fioravante wrote:
Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
I know of a few name conflicts that can occur in certain ci
> Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
> instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
> binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
More importantly, why do you want/need to do this? I personally like
the separation of world and port
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Matt Fioravante wrote:
> Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
> instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
> binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
You break the 'standard' file/direc
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Matt Fioravante wrote:
> Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
> instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
> binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
It's not safe, for the reasons that
Would there be any negative ramifications to installing ports in /usr
instead of /usr/local? Like could they potentially clobber system
binaries and other files or is this pretty safe to do?
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