From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:36:23 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DFA0C87.1040808@ihs.com> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> <84fzt3hvk8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <121220021405534518%anil@null.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039797766 22157 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 16:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Mstf-0005ky-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:42:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MsrU-00075N-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!news.tiscali.fr!deine.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039797386 36848366 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348827 gnu.emacs.help:108092 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4623 Anil Trivedi wrote: > This is not the most deeply probing question, but is /usr/sw simply > your personal preference or is there a good reason for avoiding the > more traditional name /usr/local ? (I am curious because I just started > installing a few programs and have been putting them in /usr/local). Stick with /usr/local. We just had some confusion at my site over the fact that Sun has started to distribute some open source/free software in /opt/sfw. We decided to make /usr/local a symbolic link to /opt/sfw so that default GNU etc. configurations would get installed in the same place. -- Kevin Rodgers