Re: best location for downloads?

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 09:22:30PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> Hi,
> What's the best location for downloaded files? I've been putting them
> in my home directory but I just read the 'best' place is
> /usr/local/downloads whatd'ya'll think?  thanks

I know MS has this idea that files you download from the internet are
somehow special.  But, in the real world, isn't it better to arrange
your files by content and not whether you downloaded them from the
internet, intranet, floppy, cdrom, etc. ?  BTW, you should put the files
in your home directory /home/<user> unless they are intended for
system-wide consumption. Then /usr/local/doc would be appropriate for
documentation.  I get the impression your running as the root user,
since you're casually putting files in /usr/local.  That would be a
*very bad* thing. You might want to read about the File Hierarchy
Standard used by Debian (and many other Linux distros): 

	http://www.pathname.com/fhs/


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