[NTLUG:Discuss] Where is a good place for downloaded applications?

[Courtney Grimland]

> The most common place to install stuff is 
> usually in the /usr/local directory, where there is
> bin/, sbin/, lib/, include/, man/, etc/, ... and 
> they are the equiv of their counterparts in 
> the root (/) directory.
> 

Just a couple of pennies from me:

I personaly don't use the /usr/local subdirectory (it
doesn't even exist on my filesystem.)  I haven't
figured out what would go there that can't go in /usr.
 There's the same bin/, sbin/, lib/, include/, etc.

The only thing that I could think of might be a
central application/account server of some sort that
would want to distinguish between things for remote
users and things for local users, but that's such a
blurry line that it doesn't make much sense to me
either.

Sorry about the Yahoo sig...

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