Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Gaarder <gaar...@math.cornell.edu> wrote:
> I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the
> operating system.  For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only
> directory in AFS space.  This has worked fine - until now. When I tried to
> update the "filesystem" package, it failed because it tried to do chmods on
> (at least) /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.  Why is it doing this?  Is
> /usr/local no longer truly local?
>
> thanks,