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Presumably if FreeBSD went down the same path as Fedora, they could also change the default partition layout.
by waitwhat 15y ago
Presumably if FreeBSD went down the same path as Fedora, they could also change the default partition layout.
- IgorPartola 15y agoWouldn't that interfere with the core BSD system vs p ackage binaries/libs paradigm?
- X-Istence 15y agoPackages/binaries/ports tree installs into /usr/local/. See man hier [1]. For example, on a FreeBSD install, it is perfectly safe to rm -rf /usr/local/. Your system will still boot without issues. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&...
- lmm 15y agoWhich I find is actually quite problematic; "make install" by default puts things into /usr/local, and I would prefer to distinguish between things I've installed and things ports have installed. (Specifically, I need to build my own mplayer, but I also need the ports version installed as some other ports depend on it).
- X-Istence 15y agoFeel free to change the prefix passed to the packages you install by hand. /usr/local is the default used by almost all packages I am familiar with, if for example you want /opt you have to modify that yourself.