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On 2012-12-20, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012, 11:45:34 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: |
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>> 3) Most software packagers write their binaries to a PREFIX defaulting |
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>> to /usr/local, or /usr, as opposed to /. Determining which ones belong |
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>> in / or /usr can sometimes be dependent on the distro and/or sysad. |
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>> But since more of them default to /usr, if everything were in /usr |
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>> it'd be a saner default. |
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> so what? PREFIX can be changed. Set it to /local if you want. Or /var/local. |
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> Or /my/happy/place/local. |
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Ironically, I think /usr may make for a good /usr/local, as usr could |
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easily stand for "user-installed software". If that wasn't already the |
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purpose in some earlier unices... |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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