[Gllug] Linux directory conventions

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Bruce Richardson announce to the hordes:
> It's a good place to put anything you run up yourself, like admin
> scripts or applications you compile from the original source (as opposed
> to compiling a source package into a binary package).  Your
> distribution's packaging system will leave the contents of /usr/local
> alone and it means you can keep all (or almost all) your modifications
> to one location, which makes things more manageable.

Added to the fact that, if you keep /usr/local as a partition seperate from
/usr, you don't lose anything from it in the rare situation when a
re-install is in order for whatever reason.

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