Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:24:56 +0200, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
All programs in /usr/bin are not part of UNIX but are private local hacking results.
But that is historic use. Nowadays /usr/local/bin is the canonical place for local hacks and tha's also the reason why a distribution will never install anything there.
This is historical use.... /usr/local/bin was abandoned in 1989 in favor of the /opt/<vendor>/bin/* hierarchy. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org