> I do like the idea of following the freebsd (i think net and open bsd > may do this too) convention of putting everything that's not part of > base in /usr/local/whatever - debian tends to put stuff in /usr for > the most part - most of the debian systems i've worked on have barely > anything in /usr/local
In Debian, /usr/local is reserved for things not covered by the Debian packaging system. E.g. I have a Debian system running dhcpd 3.0rc10, which is not available as a Debian package, so I deinstalled the Debian dhcpd and put my own in /usr/local. > i suppose this confused me at first (having so much stuff in > /usr/local/whatever) but it makes it easier to tell what stuff you've > added, and it's easier to upgrade the base system via cvsup. This is, of course, not necessary once you use the Debian packaging system. > it is annoying tho when you have something that's installed locally > but is also part of the base system (ie bind, ssh or whatever) as > it's pretty hard (afaik) to remove a package that's part of the base > system in bsd. That's one of the main motivations for this project... everything is a package in Debian. Well, almost everything. - Michael ===== "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." -- Aldous Huxley __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
