It isn't a bad thing. But the UNIX way always has been put the software that is part of the base OS's into /usr, and software installed over it into /usr/local.
Considering with Debian you have a hodepodge of packages from different vendors, the logical solution to keep with unix tradition would be have everything installed with the /minimal/ install of debian go into /usr and everything else go into /usr/local -Dan Papasian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :That's an odd statement to make, given that Debian has a pretty good :track record of supporting this "bundled software". [Admittedly, this :support is often in conjunction with the authors of that software -- :but I don't see that that's a bad thing.]