Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea!
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- Subject: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea!
- From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:18:49 +1100
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- In-reply-to: <20000130035859.A27508@hellboy.aug.fusa.com>; from Jerry Alexandratos on Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:58:59AM -0500
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 03:58:59AM -0500, Jerry Alexandratos wrote:
> See, this makes no sense to me. Having worked on more than a fistfull
> of UNIX's, I still cannot fathom why Linux does it different from the
> rest.
OS-Vendor-provided stuff goes in /usr. Anything else installed by
the admin goes in /usr/local. On FreeBSD, only the base system goes in
/usr, and all other packages go into /usr/local. To me, that's screwy --
it makes /usr/local really quite useless.
Hamish
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