I have a #unix and #floss #philosophy question:
Does it still make sense for us to have all our build tools use /usr/local as the destination for software?
Should we maybe re-think the defaults or maybe even the filesystem layout now that multi-user UNIX systems are becoming relatively rare (Yes I see you Tilde denizens. I am one of you and I love the exceptions, I'm talking about the rule :)
Feoh
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