On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote: <trimmed>
Very cool .. however I don't know what it installed into /usr/local but I guess I can learn to live with that being a "do not touch" vendor area as opposed to a "user may modify" area.
It seems to generally be up to the site to determine what /should/ and /shouldn't/ be the "user may modify" areas. `man hier` provides a guideline that I think at least a few people follow. I know Solaris loves to shove things in /opt. ;)
Using /usr/local for this seems to date to Net/2 from the CSRG BSDs. I can't track down SysV man pages to see if coming from Solaris had different conventions for stuffing files. ( I wonder where /usr/local and /opt became different things over the years...You then get the crazy /opt/local and stuff. ;) )
Can anyone else chime in with the history of hier? ;)
dc
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