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/usr/local

Feedback Type: Usage Tip

Contributed by: slahteine Saturday, November 13 2004 @ 11:59 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

It is most appropriate for command-line tools which aren't part of the Apple-supplied tools to go into /usr/local. If people prefer other install locations, that's cool and they should build from source. But as far as such distributions go, /usr/local is an appropriate install path.

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/usr/local - Westside guy

I'm not arguing in the least; but this isn't just an Apple thing. I'm pretty sure putting user-installed applications into /usr/local/bin (or /usr/local/sbin) is supposed to be the default for well-behaved installers on most all *nixes - that's certainly how it's supposed to work under Linux.

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