On 01/21/2014 05:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:11:10PM +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote:


And how are these installed ? Bypassing the distro package management
is a sure recipe for misery. Maybe not immediately, with a bit of
luck the binary you just copied to /usr/bin may work. But sooner or
later your users will get some serious trouble, because you're messing
up their systems. If that's what you want, go on...

I don't see how this is worse than having the users installing files
to /usr/local.

Really ? Package managers don't care about /usr/local and will never
touch it. It's a completely separate world. It exists just for that
reason.

I was referring to user-installed compiled software. Most of them goes into /usr/local/.

Re: I think having a bunch of files in /usr/local/ is much worse than a single binary.


I actually think it's much better, since it won't require root to
install. Just run the binary.

Oh dear. Such naivity is really touching...

Thanks :) /s

Anyway, if a software requires stuff installed system-wide *and* it can't work in a local dir, then I think distributing binaries is useless for it.
For those, yes, a package manager is not only better but I believe required.