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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: Hystorical Reasons 
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:45:59 -0600
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like Satoshi Asami was saying to me just the other day:
> Please open your eyes, this means an extra patch for almost every
> single port in the tree.  And a patch that has close to zero chance of 
> being accepted by the original source maintainers, as the rest of the
> world is using /usr/local/man.
> 
> This is an ENORMOUS amount of work.  I'd rather us use that manpower
> for something more constructive, than to tie our hands and make future 
> porting difficult.

These basically echo my thoughts as I was reading the original post.

I wonder, is the "heart" of this issue that people somehow want
to use the *name* "/usr/local" as a site or machine specific place,
and it's been comandeered by the masses already?  Is it too weird
to suggest we make up, say, /usr/site for truely site-local stuff?

Feh.  Not enough coffee yet,
jdl