On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 05:46, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > > > A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, > > does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because > > otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two > > versions of the same files! -turgut > > > > > I was thinking about this recently after doing some from-source > installations of the 1.x Apache software. It was actually better for me > that Mandrake chose to use their own hierarchy because otherwise my > install would have been more difficult. Since software creators have some > creative and unusual choices for their installation directories, it seems > better for my sanity that they enforce their directory structure. > > Is it LSB compliant? Dunno, but it seems close.
Actually I've often found it to be a lot more compliant (and btw it does pass the test if you install the LSB packages) than some of the stuff coming from the developers. QMail is a great example, Gee lets put all of our executables in /var and the forbid the user to change it. (read the "license".) This is why the --prefix= switch is present when you do config. --prefix=/usr works real well at keeping you from having 2 versions. or .... even more important sometimes. Allows you to have 2 versions so you can test before taking it live. James
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