Question about pkgsrc installation dir

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:27:40PM +1100, Petr Janda wrote:
> Why are we by default installing into /usr/pkg as opposed 
> to "standard" /usr/local for 3rd party apps. This always bites me when Im 
> installing manually various things that are not in pkgsrc that only look 
> at /usr/local.

Because /usr/local is for the administrator to install its own stuff.
You should strongly avoid mixing managed and unmanaged files, so it
would mean either installing manual stuff somewhere else or put the
managed things somewhere else. The pkgsrc approach is the latter as sane
default.

Joerg