Martin Baehr wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:35:58PM -0700, Troy Truchon wrote:
>> Hmm, I just figured Ubuntu did something funny with it, much like
>> disabling root and other Ubuntu trivia. I've never had anything not work
>> so I'm assuming that nothing on my system installs to /usr/local/bin,
>> which is weird. What is in that directory on your system?
> 
> on my notebook it contains something i put there myself. on most other
> machines it is empty. along with /usr/local/lib, and some others.
> the point is to provide a guideline for where to put stuff.

Often it is used for binaries that you install manually i.e. when you 
perform the './configure; make; make install' yourself rather than 
installing through whichever package manager your system favours 
(occasionally /opt/bin is used for that purpose too).

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