[nycphp-talk] where in filesystem to install php application
Ajai Khattri
ajai at bitblit.net
Mon Jul 6 08:18:24 EDT 2009
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Matt Juszczak wrote:
> I see FreeBSD do this (separate user-installed packages into /usr/local),
> but Linux always seems to install extra packages and user-generated
> content in /usr as the root. IE: mysql & apache. Always wondered why the
> separation was never there.
Why would they? If you built the package yourself then /usr/local makes
sense. If you're installing a package provided by the distro vendor then
they will merge it with the rest of the system.
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Aj.
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