David Cary Hart wrote: > Almost every package is compiled with --prefix=/usr (including KDE) when > installing to RH or Fedora. I objected: > When the file is installed using RPM. Johnathan Bailes wrote: > 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. Sorry: I can't have been clear. I meant that the Red Hat / Fedora practice was to use /usr for RPMs / SRPMs, not that RPM is designed to enforce that. SuSE is another country: they do things differently there... <lots of good stuff snipped> James. -- James Wilkinson | The end result of 1000 years of ransacking other Exeter Devon UK | people's language and grammar is a language of almost E-mail address: james | infinite flexibility. Why - we can even understand the @westexe.demon.co.uk | Americans! -- Phil Launchbury
