On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:33:41PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> 
> Sorry about that. I think I should stay away from handling packages where I
> don't follow the instructions. In this case, I not only have a different
> prefix, but also omit -enable-fhs and --enable-selftest,  I guess, that is
> bit too much difference to just proclaim "works for me"...
> 
> I will in the future only take packages where I follow the book, which are
> the majority anyway. I put some  of the bigger packages under /opt (samba,
> svn, firefox,libreoffice,mariadb,postgresql,qt5,thunderbird) and put all the
> gui stuff (not only  X11,  but also xfce) under /opt/X11. And I usually
> don't do the tests, which was the problem here.
> 
Can I suggest that IFF a package builds and works for you, you
should feel free to take the ticket - but to build it and DESTDIR
(or whatever alternative is relevant) install with the options (and
tests) which happen to be in the book ?

I don't regard /usr or /opt as relevant to this, although I suspect
that using /opt/X11 is not usually worth the trouble.

But for some packages, the recommended packages might prevent taking
it if you do not use them.

Anyway, I would like to thank you for putting the initial commit of
this version into the book, because the vulnerabilities in what we
had were an open sore.  And also, of course, thanks to Pierre for
discovering the details.

ĸen
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