21 Jan
2014
21 Jan
'14
6:26 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:11:10PM +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote:
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.
They *do* care about /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Managing those dirs (and
some others) is why package managers exist in the first place. Because
in all except the most trivial cases, installing an app and making sure
it works will involve a bit more than putting a binary in /usr/bin.
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. 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...
Ciao,
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