28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
3 p.m.
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:39:31 -0600
Billy Biggs <vektor(a)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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