Could you expand on what you mean by having /usr/local a separate partition
for your locally made software? Do you mean having two partitions, one of
which is mounted that contains 'non-experimental' code and another that has
the 'in-process' code? I didn't catch the reasoning why a separate
partition solves some problem.
Still trying to figure out the ways and whys of Linux.
-g
P.S. Lots of good information on this list. Thanks to you and others.
At 01:37 PM 1/2/03, you wrote:
I make /usr/local a
mount point for a separate partition, so that, if I have to do a
re-install, or otherwise clean house, my locally-made software will be
untouched.