Re: fresh install of OpenBSD 5.4 on an old Sparc server fails to install wget

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote:

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> Very cool .. however I don't know what it installed into /usr/local but
> I guess I can learn to live with that being a "do not touch" vendor
> area as opposed to a "user may modify" area.
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It seems to generally be up to the site to determine what /should/ and 
/shouldn't/ be the "user may modify" areas. `man hier` provides a 
guideline that I think at least a few people follow.  I know Solaris loves 
to shove things in /opt. ;)

Using /usr/local for this seems to date to Net/2 from the CSRG BSDs.  I 
can't track down SysV man pages to see if coming from Solaris had 
different conventions for stuffing files. ( I wonder where /usr/local and 
/opt became different things over the years...You then get the 
crazy /opt/local and stuff. ;) )

Can anyone else chime in with the history of hier? ;)

> dc
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