[linux-audio-dev] Tracker

[Rob Taylor]

dunno about historically, but nowadays it generally used for stuff that
isn't installed by the packaging system - e.g. on my debian machine if i
apt-get install jackit, the files get put in /usr/lib and /usr/bin but if i
check out the cvs source, i'll build it with destdir=/usr/local so stuff
gets put in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin and doesnt futz with my
packaging systems world-view...

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-dev-bounces at music.columbia.edu
> [mailto:linux-audio-dev-bounces at music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Benjamin
> Flaming
> Sent: 28 November 2003 18:26
> To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker
>
>
> On Friday 28 November 2003 11:54 am, David Olofson wrote:
> > On Friday 28 November 2003 15.07, Stonekeeper wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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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