Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 23:04 +0200, Johannes Nohl wrote: > > ... > > > Most sources configured will install to /usr/local. I usually change > > this with --prefix to /usr. What I always wanted to know is if there's > > a global config to change it to /usr. > > > Is anything wrong with /usr/local? SUSE don't use it as I could see. > > No, you should use "/usr/local", not "/usr", you got it wrong. The local > tree is reserved precisely for those packages compiled /locally/, whereas > the packager of the distro uses "/usr". This way it is easy to know which > version is the "official" one and which is yours. > > Some people use a separate partition for /usr/local, so that we can > format > "/" while keeping our /usr/local intact. > > Ie, SuSE does not use "/usr/local" because it is reserved for *you*. ;-) > > > One more detail: you will see that users may have the /usr/local/bin > first > in their path, but often root does not even have it included - on purpose > so as to execute "official" programs only. > What I do, is create a /home/local directory and then create /home/local/user etc., with symlinks from /usr/local. I have /home on it's own partition.
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