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/usr/local/ ?

/usr/local/ ?

Posted Apr 8, 2004 16:18 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: /usr/local/ ? by horen
Parent article: The User-Accessible Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

OTOH, I really do not want my desktop Linux users to be installing their own software packages.

Yeah. Whether a malicious program is installed in /usr/local or /home/share/.system doesn't really matter too much; the end result is about the same.


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