On Sun, 3 May 1998, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:

: 	Many admins don't want to fill the main /usr tree with own files
:     as this makes upgrading etc. harder. So local changes often go to
:     /usr/local/*. 

Local configuration and "volatile" files for programs that are in /usr/bin
should go in /etc or /var, not /usr/local -- so adding a /var/calendar path
to the search path of calendar(1) might be a better idea.  However,
/usr/share is a shareable partition, and is in fact where some config files
go (you're technically "supposed to" put your sendmail's .mc file in
/usr/share/sendmail/cf and generate it into /etc/sendmail.cf, but it's
usually not done that way :).

No NetBSD tools search /usr/local by default, and that's deliberate--it
keeps the separation of /usr and /usr/local very prominent.  (A similar PR
on allowing gcc to include /usr/local/include by default was struck down
several times.)

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)