>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
>> This is what /usr/local and /opt are for, and that's why I have >> both of them on separate partitions. Installing non-distribution >> stuff into /usr is just tempting fate. Rich> I've had this discussion with the slackbuilds.org folks and Rich> they insist their practices are in line with the FHS. They write Rich> that /usr/local and /opt are for locally-developed, Rich> location-specific applications. You're welcome to present your Rich> support of my position to their mail list. Do they have some coercive power over you to decide where you install your locally compiled software? I mean, you could use: --prefix=/upside-down-and-backwards in your configuration commandline, and that would be strictly between you and your (hopefully) consenting PATH env. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
