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
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