Question of the day -- helpful for newbies?
Mike Coleman
mkc at mathdogs.com
Thu Apr 12 17:33:52 CDT 2001
"Duston, Hal" <hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com> writes:
> My understanding is that you should put things you
> are adding to your system in /usr/local.
I second that. I unroll source tarballs in /usr/local/src, and install the
results in /usr/local/{bin,lib,etc}, etc. For the occasional binary tarball
that wants to be installed in a single place, I usually put it in
/usr/local/<package>.
I also keep my personal home directories (as opposed to ones the system
creates, like /home/ftp) under /usr/local/home, which may be a trifle
unusual. I keep /usr/local on a separate partition, and that way I can
reinstall the distribution at any time without messing up non-distribution
stuff. Or even run several distributions at once, all mounting the same
/usr/local.
--Mike
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