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. :)



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