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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to put packages *not* from FreeBSD ?
Date: 6 Jan 1997 23:36:45 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:

> /usr/local is indeed the right place for *local* software.  It would
> have been much better if the ports installed somewhere else (such as
> /usr/ports!).

See David O'Brien's response.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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