Re: changing prefix install doesn't work ?

[Krzysztof Gora <gora chello pl>]

 Hi,

Do You really want to install garnome in /usr ?
Few months ago I had an idea (rather stupid idea) :

> > It would be nice (I hope) to implement another set of prefixes in 
> > gar.conf.mk to allow installing 'general purpose' libraries (like 
> > libxml, pango ..)
> > in different location (/usr for example). It would be (more) nice to 
> > additionally implement switch which will allow to exlude these libraries
> > from dependencies and to use already installed.
> >    

Pat Suwalski wrote :

> Yes, we've been over this. I think what it came down to is that because
> GARNOME is intended exclusively as testing, it should never be installed
> in /usr. It could easily damage a person's ability to use their computer.
> Even if they did not complain here, Jeff doesn't want anyone to think that
> Gnome screwed up their computer.

(Details You may find at garnome-list - November 2002)

But /opt is a safe place /usr/local probably too.
I'm using garnome installed at /opt/gnome22 (after testing it in 
$HOME/garnome)
and I had no major problems compiling garnome and using it.
(minor problems : missing <locale.h> in nautilus and mergeant /sometimes/
and running fc-cache as root before first start, of course)

Chris