On 2012-12-20, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012, 11:45:34 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: > >> 3) Most software packagers write their binaries to a PREFIX defaulting >> to /usr/local, or /usr, as opposed to /. Determining which ones belong >> in / or /usr can sometimes be dependent on the distro and/or sysad. >> But since more of them default to /usr, if everything were in /usr >> it'd be a saner default. > > so what? PREFIX can be changed. Set it to /local if you want. Or /var/local. > Or /my/happy/place/local.
Ironically, I think /usr may make for a good /usr/local, as usr could easily stand for "user-installed software". If that wasn't already the purpose in some earlier unices... -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
