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Do best-practices indicate that usage of /var should be restricted to sudoers
I wrote a package, and would like to use /var to persist some data. The data I'm storing would perhaps even be thought of as an addition for /var/db.
The pattern I observe is that files in /var/db, ...
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How should I install software from source so that I can make my configuration manageable and reproducible?
I work with a lot of scientific software on Linux distributions (normally Debian variants and Red Hat variants). In order to maximize performance and get access to the latest features, it's often ...
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What is an appropriate naming structure for storing application packages?
I need to determine an appropriate directory naming structure for a package management system. The original directory structure was not POSIX-compliant in any way and certainly not UNIX-style (you'll ...
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Which is the best practice when replacing a system binary?
I'm working on Mac OS X which is shipped with several binaries mostly located in /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/. Since it doesn't have a native package manager like some Linux distros, I got used to ...
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Where should I put software I compile myself?
I need to compile some software on my Fedora machine. Where's the best place to put it so not to interfere with the packaged software?
