Re: relocate rpm's

[Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>]

Sebastian Dransfeld <sebastid@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> Is it possible to move the gnome* rpm packages from /usr to /opt/gnome by
> changeing %prefix /usr to %prefix /opt/gnome?

Not from RPM, without rebuilding them with the different prefix.

If you compile everything from source you can put them wherever you
want.
 
> And which packages should be in /opt/gnome, just gnome* and
> control-center?

Most apps pretty much rely on their being in the same prefix as the GNOME
libraries.  This should be fixed in gnome-libs 2.

Jacob
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