Re: Gnome RPMs not relocateable

[Matthew Kirkwood <weejock ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:

> Is there a specific reason that the GNOME RPMs aren't relocateable? Or
> is it that no one has bothered to make them so? It would really help if
> I could dump GNOME under /opt/gnome and not worry about any conflicts.
> If anything, it would be easier to do an rm -rf /opt/gnome and start
> from scratch instead of constantly worrying about conflicting
> installations of various modules.

One trick that I have found to be useful in the past for things as big
as this is to have two /usr/local/ partitions.  Now, if only the GNOME
RPMs installed themselves there ;)

Matthew.