On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:39:50AM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:07:50AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:

>

> > The suggestion about installing packages into / is fine if

> > stated as a suggestion and/or question. I do not agree, but still I

> > think the question is valid. However, adding "It doesn't need any

> > funding to fix this." makes it seem like a mistake that is trivial to

> > fix, and I can understand if that pisses Marc off.

>

> ...however it was just an answer to Michael Dexters suggestion... (read the

> thread).

>

> > BTW, think about all ports with hardcoded paths to

> > /usr/local/. One might argue that those ports are broken,

> > but I'd guess there are quite a lot of them.

>

> "Hardcoded"? So, changing LOCALBASE could be even dangerous, I'm afraid.

> Nothing can I do then with this.

While I guess it would be nice if every package looked for LOCALBASE, I

think that every OS/distro has its own version of hier which you violate

at your peril.  You don't happen to agree that OpenBSD uses /usr/local

for things under the controll of package management.  However, bucking

that is likely more hard work than its worth.
I put my little scripts that I want system wide in /opt/[domain]/usr/...

which leaves /usr/local free for OBSD stuff.  I don't package them up

because then I'd have to package them up for my debian boxes:  too much

effort.
Doug.