Re: Gnome RPMs not relocateable

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:

> To: Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Gnome RPMs not relocateable
> From: 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 ;)

Well, one feature of using RPM is that you can easily remove an installed
package, isn't it ?

There was some discussion about the installation prefix of the RPMS on the
list recently. Perhaps you should look at the mailing list archive at the
Gnome site - I didn't read the entire thread, but perhaps some people had
some ideas that can be useful for you.

Martin

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