Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: Re: Deficiencies in Debian]
Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 5:49:35 AM, Jonathan wrote:
> Not really. /usr/local is a handy way to distinguish between the *base*
> system, and the addon packages, which, guess what, are all compiled locally
> under FreeBSD
You, like my friend, miss the point. The *base* system is what is
installed by the package manager, period. We have a series of "base" packages
which form the core, but Debian does not make the distinction of have and have
nots. What *YOU* consider addon is base to me, and vice-versa. Therefore the
only logical way to make the distinction is by what is user compiled that the
package manager doesn't know about, and what isn't that the package manager
*does* know about. Hence, /usr and /usr/local.
I already have problems with the package manager stomping all over what
local administrators may do with they're system, I'd be quite pissed if
something that I placed in /usr/local was overridden as well.
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