Comment on Pianobar command-line Pandora clientparentComments−snprbob8615ySee this section of the hierarchical filesystem guidelines for unix-like OSes:http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHYand in particular:http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHI...Isn't root supposed to own that?−wfarr15yThey're guidelines.In the case of OS X laptops, they're almost uniformly used as single-user machines. This just takes the hassle of having to sudo to do it.There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation
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See this section of the hierarchical filesystem guidelines for unix-like OSes:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY
and in particular:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHI...
Isn't root supposed to own that?
They're guidelines.
In the case of OS X laptops, they're almost uniformly used as single-user machines. This just takes the hassle of having to sudo to do it.
There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation