Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr vs. /usr/local

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:50:06 +0200 Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net>
wrote:
| What is the supposed location of installed packages, /usr or
| /usr/local? Or stated otherwise, is it allowed for an ebuild to
| explicitly put files into /usr/local?

An ebuild should never install anything into /usr/local (exception:
baselayout).

| The reason I'm asking this is that I just found out that app-misc/bins
| explicitly puts some files into /usr/local/share and I always thought
| /usr/local is reserved for manually installed packages.
| 
| Anybody can shed some light on the matter?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/

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