Re: Bug#2182: perl shouldn't touch /usr/local

[Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>]

   I think that fsstnd should be extended to allow for directory stubs
   in /usr/local/lib which parallel directories in /usr/lib -- this is
   analogous to putting /usr/local/bin in the default PATH.

Agreed, strongly.

I do something similar in the Emacs package by including an empty
directory called /usr/local/lib/emacs/site-lisp.  It's in the default
locallisppath; users can drop LISP packages into it and load them
without any changes to the default lisppath.

How is this different from providing an empty /usr/local/bin directory
and including it in the default PATH?

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