Gunnar Wolf: > /usr/local is the area where the local > system administrator should unroll his mess.
Isn’t /opt for this? I never fully grasped the official FHS difference between /usr/local and /opt… > In any case, /var is meant for variable data - things which are > prone to change by themselves (such as all kinds of databases). IIRC, the original reason for moving non-packaged gems out of /usr/lib was that /usr should be mountable read-only (e.g., over a network), and some gems tend to write into their own install directory. -- Shot -- > The reality is that maildir is only useful on some setups > with remote mounted mailboxes and broken NFS locking. Is there any other kind? -- Marco d'Itri and Branden Robinson, debian-policy
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