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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) |
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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: |
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> > I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to |
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> > /usr/local/mailman. |
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> > IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing |
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> > software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to |
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> > place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory. |
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> Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages. |
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> Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS: |
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> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html). |
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in FHS that may be true, but IIRC it is not allowed for ebuilds. In fact |
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I got stomped on in bugzilla for suggesting it in realtion to a |
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different package. |
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My install of mailman is also in /usr/local but I had never noticed this |
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breach of ebuild etiquette before this thread mentioned it. Maybe there |
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is some good reason in this case . |
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> > Of course, you can change where |
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stuff gets installed too. > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@g.o mailing |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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