From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) Subject: Re: All this /usr/local flamage Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 15:23:48 GMT
In article <1992Sep22.010339.4598@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
: For those of you who were interested, the following opinion was finally
: reached: The original purpose of /usr/local was a place where users
: could put programs THAT WERE NOT ORIGINALLY PROVIDED BY THE OS.
: /usr/local is a place for individual system administrators to install
: programs such that they won't get nuked by an update.
TRUE.
Companies like Sony are providing /usr/local stuff with
their version of Unix. THAT'S WRONG. That's why HUT is
having all kinds of kludges for local binaries, like
/p/bin - it is not nice for crowding the root - Unix != MSDOS.
I'm personally compiling/porting stuff in my /usr/local
tree. I've selected /usr/contrib tree for binaries
not proper in /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /etc (when I'm
distributing my local stuff to other people).
I do not like original OS binaries installed in /usr/local,
really, keep that tree free for *local* stuff.
: - Ted
arl