Gezim, Someone else can answer this better, but don't worry. Distros seem to change some file locations. For typical local installs I've seen stuff default to /usr/local while other things like to install to /opt. I've also seen some ebuilds from gentoo install things into /opt whereas the source build script prefers to install them to /usr/<something>. It just depends on how it was packaged.
I would suggest you don't install anything from source (Although you are free to) as you will get stuck managing it and any deps yourself. Just emerge apache and learn the locations that Gentoo puts thigns (For example the configuration for apcahe is in /etc/apache (I think) or /etc/conf/apache, I forget.
Best, -Riyad
G�zim" Hoxha wrote:
Hi, I merged apache2 and it works fine, but the is that I'm very non-familiar with apache so when I go to apache.org to learn something from the docs, the stuff is completely differenct (e.g. to start apache I'm supposed to run /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl but in gentoo that file doesn't even exist (and the whole apache2 dir.). So my question is, is it ok if I just install apache from source (doing ./configure etc.)? Is there any difference between installing from source and merging something?
Thanks, G�zim
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