Status and outlook of LSB and FHS compliance of Fedora.

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Jun 3 20:38:56 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:46:51AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Face it, user-modifiable files belong in /usr/local.  We don't need a
> new top-level directory (that is different from every Unix-like system
> in existence) to hold local files.

Sure -- /usr/local is a great place for this stuff. Except: distributions
aren't supposed to put stuff there.

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