>On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:20:55PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Just a quickie, where should I put the src directoriew for programs that
>> I download? Is there an accepted standard or is it a 'take your pick'
>> type thing?
>
>Call it extreme paranoia but I prefer not to compile anything as root.
>I have a "build" directory in my $HOME where I put all the tarballs
>I download.
If it is a system program, root needs to do it so that it can get installed.
>It's a "take your pick" type thing in the sense that no matter where
>you do it, you should always get the same result.
I like /usr/local/src
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