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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
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Subject: Re: What dir to use for new software?
Summary: /usr/local & /usr/local/unsp
Keywords: system administration
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Date: 12 Jun 90 00:45:48 GMT
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In article <2862@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>Now that abundant free software is becoming available, the question
>arises: 
>where (in the directory tree) to put it?
>A natural UNIX place would be /usr/local/bin for binary and /usr/local/src
>for source.

We use those for "supported" software (i.e., maintained by the vendor and/or
our staff) and /usr/local/unsp/bin & src for "unsupported."

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