I must be missing something, and I am most definitely not a Mac expert, but
my laptop doesn't even have an /opt directory.
-tk
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:04 PM Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote:
> Chris Alemany <chris...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes 'man hier' is available under macOS 10.14.6
> >
> > /opt is not an unusual place to put open source stuff on Mac, it is
> > what wview used as well. However, I would lean toward /var as well as
> > Vince suggested or even put the logs within the user defined area (I
> > have mine in /Users/Shared/weewx/logs) so it’s all in one place which
> > has been nice from an accessibility standpoint.
>
> This is messy. Often in hier (which is a BSD thing from way back),
> there is a notion that it's talking about system files. For that, /var
> is arguably right.
>
> But, on mac you can't write into /usr (System Integrity Protection), and
> really you shouldn't use --prefix=/usr, but something else. pkgsrc used
> to use /usr/pkg, like on other systems, and is now /opt/pkg to avoid the
> SIP restriction (avoid, not evade, as writing in /opt is an ok thing to
> do - /usr/pkg would be ok too but is not allowed anyway).
>
> Once you have a special prefix, then one can put things in ${PREFIX}/var
> so it is logically associated.
>
> I see your point about read-mostly vs rw, but if it's all on / anyway,
> then I don't see that it matters much.
>
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