On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:36, Nelson Bartley wrote:
> 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
I only put my own stuff there to try to keep the distrib clean.
=-=
kk1
