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[Ajai Khattri]

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Matt Juszczak wrote:

> I see FreeBSD do this (separate user-installed packages into /usr/local), 
> but Linux always seems to install extra packages and user-generated 
> content in /usr as the root.  IE: mysql & apache.  Always wondered why the 
> separation was never there.


Why would they? If you built the package yourself then /usr/local makes 
sense. If you're installing a package provided by the distro vendor then 
they will merge it with the rest of the system.


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Aj.