On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0000, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Cary Hart wrote: > > Almost every package is compiled with --prefix=/usr (including KDE) when > > installing to RH or Fedora. > > When the file is installed using RPM. > Uh, that is not an rpm thing. Download a gnome rpm from Suse and see how they hack together a combo of /opt/gnome and /etc/opt/gnome for prefix and sysconfdir paths. > > That's arguable. > > I'd recommend that if you *aren't* using RPM, put files in /usr/local. > Keep one area for RPM to manage, and one area that it won't touch. Then > you don't have to worry about yum update pulling in a new package that > overwrites a file that you compiled yourself. > > James. > That fits my usual rant about locally compiled programs should be the only ones installed in /usr/local no matter what the wonderful folks at sunfreeware.com think or what the makers of linux games think either /usr/local/games? I hate that it breaks the whole damn model for the filesystem and certain tools based on the whole loki stuff don't want it any other way either. / = stuff needed to boot. /usr = userland programs accessible to everyone. /usr/local = locally compiled stuff. /opt = optional commercial software. Just the way it should be. However, locally compiled programs in /usr/local have issues with gconf schemas and such and a lot of care has to be taken for gnome programs and various options. Damn thing should read for various standard locations for gconf key info including prefix/etc/gconf (homedir)/.gconf and also /usr/local/etc/gconf. In fact I might file a bug on that.
