On 17/5/23 15:36, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Not many. An "apt-file search /usr/local" turns up exactly three packages. And I'd venture the guess that those three are doing this by mistake.
I did a very brief search and many well known packages default to /usr/local. It's just the packagers at Debian who change this to /etc Defaulting to /usr/local include: nginx http://nginx.org/en/docs/configure.html kamailio https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/blob/master/INSTALL postfix https://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html dovecot https://doc.dovecot.org/installation_guide/dovecot_community_repositories/compiling_source/ I'm pretty confident most well known packages don't use /etc and instead use the /usr/local tree. This may not be an issue for entry level Debian users, but anyone who does anything serious will want to compile from package source. Back on topic. Backing up /usr/local should be SOP irrespective of distribution and level of user competence. -- Jeremy (Lists)
