Archaic wrote these words on 12/26/05 23:29 CST: > Is BLFS going to adopt /usr/X11R7? If not, then it will obviously break > your build method. And since /usr/X11R7 will suffer the same problems as > /usr WRT to assumptions made by other packages, would now be the time to > default to /usr?
I replied a moment ago, and then thought, "but I have more to add". So, here goes. I install the TeX binaries in /usr/bin/Tex. I install the netpbm binaries in /usr/bin/netpbm. I install KDE and GNOME in /opt, Qt in /opt/qt and X in /usr/X11R6. It's been said that this is no good because you have to make a few adjustments to PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PATH and /etc/ld.so.conf. I don't buy it. Just my two cents. Why cram everything in /usr? Just so you don't have to edit a few system variables? For the sake of some installation sanity? Again, I don't buy it. Please, understand, everything you read above is strictly personal opinion. Long live a long PATH. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 23:37:00 up 93 days, 9:01, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.13, 0.34 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
