On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 13:03:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Writing to something that requires root is just doing it wrong
IMO, unless the user specifically opts in to it.
/usr/anything is thus wrong, it should all be done locally. My
preference is actually right in the current directory, do it on
a per-project level. But if you must go higher, the user's home
directory is also acceptable.
I believe Manu was referring to (system) package managers. Those
that are run by users (like rubygems/bundle, pip, dub) must of
course never write outside the users' home directory.
