Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> I ran mostly DEC boxes until the early 90s, which had all software
> installed in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
Well, I ran DEC boxes for Dec (at WSE) back in the late 80s and early
90s, and don't remember anything being in /usr/local that I didn't
drag of the net (or write myself) and install there, on either VAXen
or MIPS boxes.
> > By your own admission, /usr/local wasn't used on v7. So the discussion
> > should turn to when BSD started seeing prebuilt vendor packages to
> > install in /usr/local.
> Late '80s on DEC boxes running Ultrix (which one could argue is one of
> the earliest commercial 'vendor' BSD unices). I don't consider Solaris
> a BSD unix, so it using /opt isn't a valid point, which makes the whole
> concept of '/opt' for BSD packages a moot point. :)
I wish people would quite acting like moving packages out of
/usr/local meant going to something like /opt. I don't think anyone in
their right mind would suggest that.
> Probably the same time-frame for SunOS, although I didn't have
> experience with it until the early 90's. However, if necessary, I can
> try and dig out installation docs for some software which ask to have
> the stuff unpacked in /usr/local.
I'd certainly be interested in that.
Of course, as you yourself said, the argument about tradition is a
sideline. The real issue is that ports/packages have one source, and
things that may *not* have a mechanism to move them out of /usr/local
(however badly broken) have another some of us want - quite
legitimately - want to treat those two things differently, and
packages using a directory name that has an established use makes that
difficult.
<mike
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