* Curtis L. Olson -- Monday 11 April 2005 20:01:
> Using --prefix=/usr/local/FlightGear is nice if you want to put all of 
> FlightGear into it's own little sandbox. [...]
> On linux machines, most everything is pre-packaged so I usually don't 
> worry about it myself and slap everything I build myself into /usr/local 
> which usually isn't that much.  [...] If you are on an sgi or sun, you might 
> end up building a *lot* of extra software from source which might make 
> speparate paths more attractive.

I do really install much, and almost all into /usr/local. And it's still
not crowded, so that I can even remove the whole /usr/local/lib after major
upgrades without trouble. And if I really want to remove one package "make
uninstall" is the natural way to do it. (Don't know if fgfs supports that.)
Iff I wanted to keep things separated, I'd rather go for /opt/FlightGear/,
but I know that not everybody likes this target. I agree, /usr/local/FlightGear
isn't wrong. Just a bad choice (IMHO :-).

m.

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