Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:27 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I tend to try out many open source apps/packages - games, editors to >> media tools. I have a bad habit of downloading and extracting source >> in the /var/tmp directory and then doing configure-make-install >> process. I am not sure of best practice (good practices) to be >> followed when installing any software. For example how and where to >> keep the src. Any comments and/or resources would be really helpful. > > It does not really matter where you keep the source. > > *I* unload the source either somewhere under my home directory or on my <snip> What's become common is /opt/src. My boss, closer to older style, has me using /usr/local/opt. mark -- "Profit-making is a technique for encouraging human enterprise, not an end in itself." p17, "Have I Ever Lied To You Before?", Jerry Goodis, 1972