From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anil Trivedi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:42:23 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <131220021245000195%anil@null.invalid> 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> <3DFA0C87.1040808@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039805634 30753 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 18:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:53:54 +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 18MuwY-0007zC-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:53:50 +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 18MutP-0005KH-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:50:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssrv26.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.10 (Carbon/OS X) Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.108.200.107 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssrv26.news.prodigy.com 1039808543 ST000 64.108.200.107 (Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:42:23 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:42:23 CST X-UserInfo1: TSU[@IONTRUABPX[\JIH^TD@\JT@QDDMEPWXODMMHXMTWA]EPUW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348838 gnu.emacs.help:108098 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:4629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4629 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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. I learned a little more in the last day or so. Fink site says they avoid /usr/local because it is commonly used and one 3rd party may overwrite another. So they prefer /sw, as an abbreviation for "software" this seems risky too, perhaps /finksw would have been better or a completely neutral name nobody else would chance upon. Anyway, hoping that such conflicts won't arise in the few programs I am likely to install, I am sticking with /usr/local, as you advise. Anil