Re: /usr vs. /usr/local
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On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:55:30 -0500, Ted Behling wrote:
>What's the recommended usage difference between /usr and /usr/local? I
>understand that it's up to me, but what do most people use each of these
>for? To date, I've put a couple things in /usr/sbin and my source has gone
>into /usr/src .
The theory is that anything that the system installs goes into /usr and
anything you install goes into /usr/local. That way only things which are
machine dependant and/or hard to replace are in /usr/local.
Unless, of course, you're using FreeBSD. In which case only what they
decide as the "base" OS goes into /usr and everything else, even if it is a
"package" that you install, goes into /usr/local. :/
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