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Why do you make a specific point of the symlink?
by wnight 15y ago
Why do you make a specific point of the symlink?
- mahmud 15y agoAlways a good idea to have things you build from source outside your /usr/src tree, and also named descriptively. Not just for stuff you build from source, but also other packages you admin yourself outside the distro package management (JDK comes to mind.)
- wnight 15y agoI can think of a few reasons to build elsewhere like it being easier to do as a non-root user, and so you don't fill a system drive with experimentation, but I'm not quite sure I know specifically why you're saying so. As for descriptive names, I agree.