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

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Ian Murdock writes ("Re: Bug#2182: perl shouldn't touch /usr/local"):
>    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?

Quite, I agree absolutely.

Packages should continue to provide stub directories in /usr/local and
should continue to add these directories to appropriate search paths.

If the FSSTND appears to prohibit this then we should discuss it with
them rather than breaking our distribution :-).

Ian.