Re: Where to install to

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Charles> In the CVS tutorial and various other places I've seen
    Charles> people talk about installing gnome in /opt/gnome. Is
    Charles> there a reason for this that I don't know about? What's
    Charles> wrong with the "normal" /usr/local/ ?

I think the main reason is that GNOME is still young software, and it
is sometimes necessary to wipe everything out and start again.  It's
easier to do that if you install with a prefix of /opt/gnome