Heyo, With the incredable amount of customization of the Mandrake setup, why not remove the /usr/local directory from actual existance, and make is a sim link to /usr. This has solved SO MANY of my problems when compiling software and installing other software which is not packaged for Mandrake.
I think this would help out not only silly people like me (who didn't realize that the /usr/local/ directory structure is a great place for files to be put be stupid ./configure scripts) and newbies who don't even know what that directory is for.. (seems to strike a cord there too). Just for my personal reference, what's the point of having the /usr/local directory in the current Mandrake setup anyways? NB
