"Richard O'Keefe" <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote: > > This is good advice (/usr/local is fine though). > > Actually, no, it isn't. > To start with, these days it's chock full of stuff > which is hardly less critical for system operation > than anything you'll find in /bin. > More importantly, /usr/local is a bugger to manage by hand, even if the sources came with uninstall capabilities, chances are they're not around, anymore, or messed up.
I prefer to have stuff in /opt/<package name>, with links to the binaries in /opt/bin. Manual user installs go into ~/opt, one-file stuff (mostly self-written) into ~/bin. There's also some scripts in ~/dos to start some games with dosbox, but those don't count. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
