Why does Red Hat not include /usr/local/lib in the default library search path?

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Issue

  • Why does Red Hat not include /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib64 in the default library search path whereas other non-RHEL distributions do include it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7

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