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List: linux-audio-dev
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker
From: Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas () gmx ! net>
Date: 2003-11-28 19:01:25
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:39:31 -0600
Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> wrote:
> It's really awkward that autoconf-based tools default to /usr/local
> since many users of my applications often use it and end up with
> non-FHS compliant silly directories like /usr/local/etc and
> /usr/local/var which should never exist. Putting everything under
> $PREFIX is really a compromise by the autoconf folks, and using
> /usr/local seems to be another compromise partly to help separate GNU
> stuff from native stuff(think installing bash on a Solaris machine).
I acyually like it this way. In debian, at least, no package will ever
install anything to /usr/local, so installing stuff to /usr/local will
at least garantee to not confuse the package management system.
Flo
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