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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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Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too. |
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