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[Michael Hernandez]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:54 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Michael Hernandez wrote:
> 
> > I worry that using /usr/local for stuff might
> > end up with an accidental delete or overwrite by the package manager.
> 
> Why? System packages never install into /usr/local. Traditionally, 
> /usr/local has always been for "local" stuff. When I build stuff from 
> source, I generally will install everything in /usr/local.
> 
> Most Linux distros generally follow the FHS standard, see:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
> 
> 
> 

I only say that because there is stuff in /usr/local on my ubuntu system
that I didn't put there (at least not manually), and /opt is completely
empty.

--Mike H