On 2012/03/01 17:17 (GMT-0500) Ruslan Nabioullin composed:
FHS-2.3 states "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally." This is vague - what exactly is the meaning of "...installing software locally"? It could be interpreted as installing software endemic to a particular system (e.g., system-wide backup bash scripts) or as installing "general-purpose" software under some certain circumstances (suggested from the observation that a large proportion of installation scripts of software projects use "/usr/local" as the prefix by default).
I've always taken locally to mean outside the package management system native to the distribution. I put mostly Mozilla products packaged by Mozilla.org there, where they cause no conflicts with Mozilla products packaged by the distro. Since I multiboot most machines, these Mozilla products are install once/use many, with /usr/local on a separate partition I mount identically to each installed distro while it's booted.
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