Re: [Fink-devel] default directory location...

2002-07-18 Thread Max Horn
First off, please read the FAQ. Secondly, there is no difference, permission wise, between setting up a directory below / and below /usr/local. Both are by default owned by root; in fact /usr/local is in group wheel and / in group admin, so /usr/local has initially more restrictive access righ

[Fink-devel] default directory location...

2002-07-17 Thread john doe
Just curious here if a directory needed to be created for fink (eg: /sw) why wasn't /usr/local/fink created instead? I realize that you didn't want stuff fink installed overwritten, but very few programs actually create directories in /usr/local (mysql, apache, and some nntp daemons being the