GeezerVison

> >  /usr/.local to /usr/local?  If not, then why prefer ~/.local to ~/local?
> 
> Because unlike a home directory, users don't frequently perform
> directory listings or tab completion of /usr/. For a frequently used
> personal directory one wants the minimum of noise.

Glad someone around here knows actual facts about the statistics of
using "ls" :-).  Can you point to published user studies about this?
If not, let me just say that I perform directory listings of /usr a
whole lot *more* than my home directory.

Um, isn't this all argument about what color to paint the shed?

Bill