[NTLUG:Discuss] Where is a good place for downloaded applications?

[greg hewett]

I use the slackware distro because I am a control freak.  I use /usr/local to
put ANY application that I put on after the initial install for two reasons.

1.  It is default in most applications that I compile and install.

2.  I could delete /usr/local, and I would be back to my original slackare
    distro.

Greg

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:52:41AM -0800, Courtney Grimland wrote:
> > The most common place to install stuff is 
> > usually in the /usr/local directory, where there is
> > bin/, sbin/, lib/, include/, man/, etc/, ... and 
> > they are the equiv of their counterparts in 
> > the root (/) directory.
> > 
> 
> Just a couple of pennies from me:
> 
> I personaly don't use the /usr/local subdirectory (it
> doesn't even exist on my filesystem.)  I haven't
> figured out what would go there that can't go in /usr.
>  There's the same bin/, sbin/, lib/, include/, etc.
> 
> The only thing that I could think of might be a
> central application/account server of some sort that
> would want to distinguish between things for remote
> users and things for local users, but that's such a
> blurry line that it doesn't make much sense to me
> either.
> 
> Sorry about the Yahoo sig...
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