1.1 The Local Domain
While at first glance, the Local domain seems very similar to the
System domain, there are several differences between them. The most
important thing is the differing purpose of the Local domain, as it is
meant as the location for installing software which was not included
with your GNUstep distribution and which you or your local sysadmin
compile and/or install manually. These may include third party
applications, custom extension libraries and their related header
files, etc. The Local domain is - as the name suggests - usually
installed as `Local' on your GNUstep system. Every software
(except for gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui and gnustep-back
which by default install into the System domain) should install by
default into the Local domain, so that if you download a source
tarball of the software and you install it, it installs by default in
the right place for this operation (the Local domain). Distributions
should override this default manually when they package the software
they want to distribute as part of their distribution, so that in that
case the software is installed in the System domain.
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