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Re: testing consistency
- To: Per Bothner <bothner at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: testing consistency
- From: Bob Glickstein <bobg at zanshin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:56:19 -0700
- Cc: law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Zanshin Inc., Marin County, CA
- References: <19111.874006103@hurl.cygnus.com><199709112101.OAA12091@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Bob Glickstein <bobg at zanshin dot com>
Per Bothner writes:
> Packages manually compiled by the user (not using the package
> management system) belong in /usr/local, not /usr, on any well-run
> Linux system.
Furthermore, a tool like GNU Stow helps manage the contents of a tree
like /usr/local. Please see
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/stow/