[ale] User-specific software installation. ~/bin vs ~/.local/bin vs ??

[scott mcbrien]

If you want to make it available to other users on the system, you
might put stuff in /usr/local/.  The LFHS indicates that /usr/local or
/opt should be used for applications that are not provided by your
linux distro.  If you're creating etc and a bunch of directory
structure, typically people chose /opt for that, for example oracle
puts it's stuff in /opt/oracle-*

-Scott

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Sparr <sparr0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you install software specific to your user (as many third party
> game installers want to do by default, and many `make` processes are
> capable of doing if so instructed), where do you put it? I have an
> entire root hierarchy in ~/.local (that is, ~/.local/bin ~/.local/var
> ~/.local/usr ~/.local/etc etc) that I let such things install to. I've
> encountered other people who simply have ~/bin ~/etc ~/opt etc. Are
> there other schemes? Are there any standards on this matter?
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a ~/bin on the multiple machines that I grep through for scripts of
>> interest. Sadly it's all very, very specific so of no use on any other
>> system.
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