On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > FHS also says that a distro should ship with nothing in the /usr/local
> > tree.
>
> And I find it ridiculous. Yes, for FILES I agree - it's place to install
> local files for system. But for directory stubs... Where the hell I must
> put local perl packages ? I prefer /usr/local/lib/perl for architecture
> specific-ones and /usr/local/share/perl . And I (as dstribuion creator)
> even can configure perl to use this directories. But I CAN NOT (according
> to FHS) create this directories. Gosh. So now I need to GUEES where I can
You've missed the point of /usr/local . FHS says that a vendor can't put
things in /usr/local; not that a sysadmin can't. If a vendor is shipping
perl, /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/bin/perl is _just fine_. By definition,
that _isn't_ local.
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