Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> writes: > Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> writes: > >> I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports >> >> I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with >> at first and maybe instead of in long term. > > 2) plus info -> share/info as suggested by jbeich > > 3) plus libdata/pkgconfig -> lib/pkgconfig > > These three items will ensure that "./configure --prefix=/usr/local && > make install" will do the right thing out of the box - by changing our > definition of "the right thing" to match what the GNU autotools have > been doing for at least 15 years.
/usr/local is *the* default location according to GNU[1] and reinforced by FHS[2] which want it "safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated". Not on FreeBSD where site-local stuff like your example above and ports/packages trample on each other. NetBSD avoided the issue by moving /usr/local to /usr/pkg. [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html [2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
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