On 2014.09.20 13:59, Brian Wood wrote: > Andrew Berg writes: > >> >> BTW, since I'm doing a talk on FreeBSD at the November meeting, > > On Linux there wasn't much under /usr/local. The stuff I put in there was > about it. On BSD those directories have tons of files in them. What's up > with that? https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD%2010.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html All third-party software goes in /usr/local. It's the separation between the base system and third-party software. Linux distros have no such distinction (everything aside from perhaps a couple utilities made by the distro project is third-party) and so everything is lumped together. This is one of the things I'll be going over in detail in the talk since it seems to confuse people coming from Linux.