/opt/gnome? (Newbie-ish question)

[Allan Third <allan grelb src gla ac uk>]

Hi,

I've been playing around with GNOME for a while now, and I've noticed that a
large number of the webpages/FAQs, etc. recommend installing it under
/opt/gnome. I've just recently uninstalled GNOME, in the hope of doing a
completely clean reinstall, and I'd like to take this advice, in order to
keep all the files for GNOME in the same place, to make this sort of thing a
lot easier in the future. What I'm wondering, though, is why all the RPMs
all automatically install to /usr or /usr/local, and none of them appear to
be relocatable. Surely, if it's *possible* to do an /opt/gnome install,
there wouldn't be any problem creating RPMs which could be relocated? Does
anyone know why this is not done?

I do have all the SRPMS from ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/redhat/latest, and I'd
be willing to build them myself, but my knowledge of rpm is extremely
limited, and I don't know how to modify the spec files to create relocatable
packages. Has anyone done this, and if so, could they tell me how I could do
it?

Thanks in advance, 

Allan

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Allan Third (allan@mindless.com)

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