tributed by DarwinPorts.

     /${prefix}/     The base of the DarwinPorts filesystem hierarchy. By
                     default set to "/opt/local/"

                     bin/      common utilities, programming tools, and appli-
                               cations

                     etc/      system configuration files and scripts

                     games/    useful and semi-frivolous programs

                     include/  standard C include files

                     lib/      archive libraries

                     libexec/  system daemons & system utilities (executed by
                               other programs)

                     sbin/     system programs and administration utilities

                     share/    architecture-independent files

                               doc/       miscellaneous documentation
                               examples/  various examples for users and pro-
                                          grammers
                               info/      GNU Info hypertext system
                               java/      applications based on Java
                               locale/    localization files
                               man/       manual pages
                               misc/      misc system-wide ASCII text files

                     var/      multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and
                               spool files

                               db/     misc. automatically generated system-
                                       specific database files

                                       dports/  DarwinPorts runtime data

                                                build/  Where ports are build
                                                        and destrooted

                                                distfiles/
                                                        Holds the distfiles of
                                                        the fetched ports

                                                packages/
                                                        Contains archives
                                                        (packages) of
                                                        installed ports

                                                        Holds the sources of
                                                        both the porttree (the
                                                        Portfiles) and the
                                                        sources for the base
                                                        system

                                       spool/   directory containing output
                                                spool files

                                       log/     misc. system log files

                                       run/     system information files
                                                describing various info about
                                                system since it was booted

                               www/    files to be served by a http server

                                       cgi-bin/  directory for cgi executables

                     /Applications/DarwinPorts/
                               Native Mac OS X applications

                     /Library/Frameworks/
                               Native Mac OS X Library Frameworks

SEE ALSO

     port(1), ports.conf(5), portfile(7), portgroup(7), portstyle(7), hier(7)

HISTORY

     The porthier manual page appeared first in DarwinPorts. Lots of it is
     based on hier(7).

AUTHORS

     Felix Kronlage <fkr@opendarwin.org>

BSD                             August 31, 2005                            BSD