Re: /opt/gnome? (Newbie-ish question)

[Havoc Pennington <hp Mcs Net>]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Allan Third wrote:
> 
> lot easier in the future. What I'm wondering, though, is why all the RPMs
> all automatically install to /usr or /usr/local, and none of them appear to
> be relocatable. Surely, if it's *possible* to do an /opt/gnome install,
> there wouldn't be any problem creating RPMs which could be relocated? Does
> anyone know why this is not done?
>

There's no point installing a package to /opt/gnome because you can remove
packages using the rpm tool. That's what packages are for, in large part -
so you don't have /opt/everythingunderthesun. The /opt/gnome suggestion is 
if you're compiling yourself.

The reason the rpm's aren't relocatable is that certain Gnome paths are
determined at compile time (such as the icon locations) and so binaries
can't be relocated without breaking things. This could perhaps be fixed
with some sort of config file but no one has done it and it wouldn't be
allowed before 1.0.

Havoc