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/usr/local: Local Programs

Most sites have their own set of local utilities, programs and applications. To distinguish those from the system ones, they are placed in a directory separate from the standard operating system: /usr/local.

By following that convention, operating system upgrades do not affect ``public domain" and ``homegrown" software.



Claude Cantin 2010-10-24