[linux-audio-dev] Tracker

[Benjamin Flaming]

On Friday 28 November 2003 11:54 am, David Olofson wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 15.07, Stonekeeper wrote:

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> However, I think the proper solution is to install things so that you
> never have dependencies in the wrong direction. It makes some sense
> that libs in /usr shouldn't depend on /usr/local.

For the benefit of Linux newcomers like me, could someone explain the 
historical reasons why we even have a /usr/local directory to begin with?

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