Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker
From: Billy Biggs (vektor_AT_dumbterm.net)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 20:39:31 EET
Benjamin Flaming (lad_AT_solobanjo.com):
> 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?
Because in many environments /usr is NFS-shared across a lot of
machines.
It's really awkward that autoconf-based tools default to /usr/local
since many users of my applications often use it and end up with non-FHS
compliant silly directories like /usr/local/etc and /usr/local/var which
should never exist. Putting everything under $PREFIX is really a
compromise by the autoconf folks, and using /usr/local seems to be
another compromise partly to help separate GNU stuff from native stuff
(think installing bash on a Solaris machine).
-Billy
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