From: Hamish Moffatt (fejekb@z.tpnet.pl)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 01:36:29 EEST
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:50:31AM +0000, w9ya wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:05 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > The distributions (Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake etc) shouldn't put
> > anything in /usr/local, but if you are installing something outside of
> > the packaging system then /usr/local is the recommended place.
>
> Yes, and no. If your packaging system installs source, then it shouldn't go
> into ./usr/local. The quote above was followed by another paragraph in the
> original message that specifically indicated this.
That's right - I don't think what I said conflicts with this. Anything
you install yourself should go into /usr/local. The vendor (Sun, Red
Hat, Debian etc) can overwrite anything except /usr/local. Debian also
leaves all of /opt for the local administrator.
Hamish
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