folks --

Does anyone see or imagine or know of any negative impact from having
/usr/local be a symbolic link to /local?  One of my teammates is
asking.

I have personally endorsed this particular hack.  It lets us have /usr
and /local each be in their own filesystem and yet not have a mount
fight.  That is, if /usr/local and /usr were each unique filesystems,
you could wind up with bad things like one FS hiding the other.
(Rare, but possible.)  So instead, I am in the habit of moving
/usr/local to /local and letting there be a sym-link /usr/local.  What
then is the risk?

Novell?  RedHat? What do y'all say?  Is there a problem with this?

Thanks.

-- R;   <><

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