On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:14:20PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Right now you have 2 samba installed - one in /usr/bin and one in > > /usr/local/bin > All source projects are built by default to prefix=/usr/local, while rpm are > built with prefix=/usr, is there a good reason for that? /usr/local was probably meant to be a local disk while /usr was to be mounted from a shared place and contain the basic OS. As you wouldn't wanna mix up your custom utilities with the system ones or to polute the /usr/ for everyone, you'd store them on your own disk, at /usr/local/. On the other hand, RPMs or DEBs are considered a part of the system installation. It's also a good practice to separate all your custom-compiled utilities into /usr/local/, since it helps to retain packaging system integrity -- all software which you can uninstall via the packaging system would be in /usr, while all the rest would go into /usr/local/. For more info, see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.2.pdf ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
