Re: Partitioning disk
Quoting Christoph Simon (ciccio@prestonet.com.br):
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:16:19 -0000
> "Bob" <mr_jimmybob@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > In older days a /usr/local was recommended because this is where you would
> > install all the "alien" software on your system. By alien I mean, Things
> > that did not come prepared for your system, or things you compiled yourself.
> >
> > Ourdays it is quite rare (at least from what I see), to find 'things that
> > end up in /usr/local', so why put it in a different partition?. Dont!.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to give it more use even today. Maybe someone can
> find a way to have the stable distribution in the main tree and the unstable
> in local. There seem to be many people using stable, but wishing to
> get also individual packets from unstable, not for testing purposes.
> This might be a real challenge for the debian packaging system!
Hands off /usr/local !
You've quoted a false premise - of course one of the reasons we use
linux is precisely because we can write software ourselves, and we
need somewhere to install it. I don't want Debian putting anything
into local.
Cheers,
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