Re: /opt/gnome? (Newbie-ish question)

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 12:46:42PM +0000, Peter Asboeck wrote:

> If some path names in GNOME are hard-coded, why is the default
> for tarballs /usr/local and SRPMS are installing in /usr, /etc,

  'usr/local' is an autoconf/configure default, pretty much all
GNU'ish programs are that way. RedHat seems to always want to install
everything in the standard system directories '/usr, /etc'. Kind of
a pet peeve of mine but whenever I have to get a program in RPM format
I first convert it to a tar.gz using Slackware's 'rpm2targz' and then
throw away all the patches changing stuff to /usr, /etc etc. and just
compile/install my way, usually just the default /usr/local, or if its
a large package like TeTex, INN, apache, MySQL or something I'll give
it its own home.

> BTW I'm running gnome-0.99.7 with SRPMS patch to /opt/gnome
> and Enlightenment-0.15 SRPMS patch to /opt/enlightenment
> without any "additional" problems.

  I use the tarballs myself, but I compile/install it with the option
to configure '--prefix=/usr/local/GNOME' so I wind up with
/usr/local/GNOME/bin,lib,share, etc. Works great here and when its
time for a fresh start it just a simple 'rm -rf /usr/local/GNOME' :-)

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Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
System Administrator (*nix, Perl, CGI hacker, certified OS/2 Specialist)