From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: ax25ipd Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:36:29 +1000 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020827223629.GC10758@silly.cloud.net.au> References: <200208262147.08027.w9ya@amsat.org> <20020827120547.GA17396@silly.cloud.net.au> <200208270950.31042.w9ya@amsat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208270950.31042.w9ya@amsat.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:50:31AM +0000, w9ya wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:05 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > The distributions (Red Hat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake etc) shouldn't put > > anything in /usr/local, but if you are installing something outside of > > the packaging system then /usr/local is the recommended place. > > Yes, and no. If your packaging system installs source, then it shouldn't go > into ./usr/local. The quote above was followed by another paragraph in the > original message that specifically indicated this. That's right - I don't think what I said conflicts with this. Anything you install yourself should go into /usr/local. The vendor (Sun, Red Hat, Debian etc) can overwrite anything except /usr/local. Debian also leaves all of /opt for the local administrator. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB