On Sat Dec 22, 2001 at 01:36:13AM -0500, Nelson Bartley wrote: > With the incredable amount of customization of the Mandrake setup, why > not remove the /usr/local directory from actual existance, and make is a > sim link to /usr. This has solved SO MANY of my problems when compiling > software and installing other software which is not packaged for > Mandrake.
Absolutely not! If this is a problem for you, upon install simply remove the directory and create the symlink yourself. For some people, /usr/local is essential. For instance, I always put /usr/local/ on it's own partition. That's where I install things like games and other programs I've compiled on my own. It's meant to be seperate from the base system. FYI, some games I've installed using 7.2 and have not had to reinstall across upgrades to 8.0 or 8.1. Making /usr/local a symlink to /usr would mean I need to reinstall these games each upgrade. And for even more mundane things such as running apache 2.0 or new versions of mysql, etc. Installing these to /usr/local allows me to run multiple versions of the same program at the same time for testing and so forth. I think this is an exceptionally bad idea. > I think this would help out not only silly people like me (who didn't > realize that the /usr/local/ directory structure is a great place for > files to be put be stupid ./configure scripts) and newbies who don't > even know what that directory is for.. (seems to strike a cord there > too). > > Just for my personal reference, what's the point of having the > /usr/local directory in the current Mandrake setup anyways? Probably because it's supposed to be this way. /usr/local is meant for stuff you've compiled on your own... if you want things installed into /usr, make the symlink yourself or use ./configure --prefix=/usr -- MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 5 days 13 hours 0 minutes.
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