Quoting Christoph Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:16:19 -0000 > "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would > > install all the "alien" software on your system. By alien I mean, Things > > that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself. > > > > Ourdays it is quite rare (at least from what I see), to find 'things that > > end up in /usr/local', so why put it in a different partition?. Dont!. > > Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can > find a way to have the stable distribution in the main tree and the unstable > in local. There seem to be many people using stable, but wishing to > get also individual packets from unstable, not for testing purposes. > This might be a real challenge for the debian packaging system!
Hands off /usr/local ! You've quoted a false premise - of course one of the reasons we use linux is precisely because we can write software ourselves, and we need somewhere to install it. I don't want Debian putting anything into local. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
