Re: /usr/local/com

Chad Walstrom <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:09:49 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.bug-tracking.gnats.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Jeremy C. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> As an example, see many ./configure scripts that have:
>   --sharedstatedir=DIR    modifiable architecture-independent data 
> [PREFIX/com]

For Debian installations, the sharedstatedir is placed in a subdirectory
under /var/lib. The concept of a separate "com" directory seems largely
a GNU system construct.

Chad