28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
3:06 p.m.
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(a)music.columbia.edu
[mailto:linux-audio-dev-bounces@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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