On Saturday 07 December 2002 00.57, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
On Friday 06 December 2002 17:54, Anders Johansson wrote:
This is dictated by the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/)
You, meaning the user/administrator of the system, should never install things in /usr/lib. That is reserved for the distributor of the OS. /usr/lib may be completely wiped out by an upgrade, and your locally installed software would be gone.
I'm sorry: I couldn't find this at the /usr/lib FHS description:
It's not in the /usr/lib description, it's in the /usr/local description <quote> Software placed in / or /usr may be overwritten by system upgrades (though we recommend that distributions do not overwrite data in /etc under these circumstances). For this reason, local software must not be placed outside of /usr/local without good reason. </quote> Anders