On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Tom Russo wrote:
Yes, it is annoying. It's like the 80's again --- back when we had to edit Makefile's by hand every time we ported a code from system to system. As a BSD nerd, I'm even annoyed by the Linux convention of putting prepacked, but third-party, stuff into /usr instead of /usr/local, but there you have it.
Me too, having come from a SunOS & Solaris background. Same for /opt for the LSB stuff. These make Xastir jump through all kinds of hoops depending on who's installing it and why. Lee just pointed out something to me that I'm going to check out yet WRT to the geotiff stuff. It won't help the problem we just discussed but will help another. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
