FreeBSD takes this a radical step further -- its package system only ever installs things to /usr/local. Your own random shit needs a third prefix. It won't ev

FreeBSD takes this a radical step further -- its package system only ever installs things to /usr/local. Your own random shit needs a third prefix. It won't even make a /bin/bash -- unless you fuck shit up, everything outside of /usr/local /home and /root came directly from the FreeBSD project, period. You can checkout the source to your system's entire userland from one repository, and build it with one make. I wish there was a nice Linux distro that held itself to this. Gentoo makes a nice distinction in portage between the necessary system packages that come built in the tarball and the world packages that you installed and care about, but it mixes them together in the filesystem.