On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) A. Khattri wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > > > I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to > > /usr/local/mailman. > > > > IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing > > software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to > > place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory. > > Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages. > > Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html).
in FHS that may be true, but IIRC it is not allowed for ebuilds. In fact I got stomped on in bugzilla for suggesting it in realtion to a different package. My install of mailman is also in /usr/local but I had never noticed this breach of ebuild etiquette before this thread mentioned it. Maybe there is some good reason in this case . > > Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too. > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
