Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> skribis: > It would not. At least not always. A compiled package might look for > it's datafiles in /usr/share. If you compile it with --prefix=/usr and > then move it to /usr/local, the program will obviously not work. > > I know because I wrote software that does exactly this :P
Yeah, I think we've all written software that obviously does not work. We just don't talk about it a lot. :)