On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when > installing software locally. Binc IMAP will go there if you do not specify > any prefix when building from source.
If it is the case that the RPMs are installing into /opt, I'd like to recommend that they install themselve into /usr/local. It still perfectly (and arguably more exactly) conforms to the FHS. Besides, /opt is a bit of a throwback. Plus there's the warning about not being insulated vs. the host OS and legacy packages. Personally I only use /opt for packages that are poorly behaved or refuse to or are hard to make work in other places *cough*qmail*cough*. As for the FHS, it very nearly worked out of the box with 1.0.20. I had to manualy link up a few things in /usr/local and of course manually create the daemontools run scripts. Speaking of install: I'd like to mention the very useful checkpassword-pam package http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/. It is almost perfect if you use LDAP for authentication--or even if you don't. I used the enviornment variable version of configuring it, making the change to the 'run' script. C=) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Better the hard truth than the comforting fantasy. -- Carl Sagan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caskey <caskey*technocage.com> /// TechnoCage Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A presumption on your part does not constitute an obligation on my part.
