[linux-audio-dev] Tracker

[Florian Schmidt]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:39:31 -0600
Billy Biggs <vektor at dumbterm.net> wrote:

>   It's really awkward that autoconf-based tools default to /usr/local
> since many users of my applications often use it and end up with
> non-FHS compliant silly directories like /usr/local/etc and
> /usr/local/var which should never exist.  Putting everything under
> $PREFIX is really a compromise by the autoconf folks, and using
> /usr/local seems to be another compromise partly to help separate GNU
> stuff from native stuff(think installing bash on a Solaris machine).

I acyually like it this way. In debian, at least, no package will ever
install anything to /usr/local, so installing stuff to /usr/local will
at least garantee to not confuse the package management system.

Flo

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