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Re:Linux is now hosted on GitHub by mahmud on Sunday September 04, 2011 @08:57PM (#2960744)
You poor poor soul!

My life has been infinitely enriched by the countless hours I've spent, many a dark night, in /usr/src/linux[1], with "Midnight Commander".

[1] A symlink, always a symlink.

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Re:Linux is now hosted on GitHub by wnight on Monday September 05, 2011 @12:12AM (#2961115)
Why do you make a specific point of the symlink?
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Re:Linux is now hosted on GitHub by mahmud on Monday September 05, 2011 @12:56AM (#2961200)
Always a good idea to have things you build from source outside your /usr/src tree, and also named descriptively. Not just for stuff you build from source, but also other packages you admin yourself outside the distro package management (JDK comes to mind.)
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Re:Linux is now hosted on GitHub by wnight on Monday September 05, 2011 @04:46PM (#2963303)
I can think of a few reasons to build elsewhere like it being easier to do as a non-root user, and so you don't fill a system drive with experimentation, but I'm not quite sure I know specifically why you're saying so.

As for descriptive names, I agree.

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