Re: Where to install to

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 11:32:27PM +0000, Charles Collicutt scribbled:
> Hi,
>    In the CVS tutorial and various other places I've seen people talk
> about installing gnome in /opt/gnome. Is there a reason for this that I
> don't know about? What's wrong with the "normal" /usr/local/ ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Charles
> 

  My impression is that the reason for this is that it's so you can isolate
the tons of cruft Gnome installs from the rest of your system, also giving
you an exceedingly easy uninstall (rm -rf).  /opt/gnome isn't particularly
required though, I use /usr/local/gnome.

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  Daniel Burrows

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