On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to > /usr/local/mailman. > > IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing > software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to > place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory.
Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages. Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html). Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
