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by fakeempire
5395 days ago
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would you elaborate? i guess i agree for historical reasons but for practical reasons i think package managers actually should use /usr/local/. basically everyone uses a package manager now (except lfs). where would you like package managers to install. |
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"The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated." [1]
And I believe that "system software" today means "installed by a package manager" (please correct me if I'm wrong).
I personally (rarely) use /usr/local for manually-installed packages. This way there's no risk of a package manager accidentally overwriting stuff outside its control.
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY