Re: Packaging system effort

[Munish Chopra <chopra@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-02-27 23:23 +0000, Enemy God wrote:
> Can't find the exact piece to quote, but I think it
> was Simon that didn't like that ports should be installed
> in /usr/...
> 
> So what about installing them in /opt ???
> 
> Is that too much Solaris (or too little BSD) ???
> 

Funny, I was just discussing something similar with a few folks. While
everyone had their favorites, the entire bunch of us eventually agreed
that using /opt would at least (hopefully) eliminate hier(7) abuse. A
number of FreeBSD ports mess around outside of /usr/local with no real
justification. Using /opt seems to make this a lot easier to find.

-- 
Munish Chopra