-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-04-29 at 23:04 +0200, Johannes Nohl wrote: ...
Most sources configured will install to /usr/local. I usually change this with --prefix to /usr. What I always wanted to know is if there's a global config to change it to /usr.
Is anything wrong with /usr/local? SUSE don't use it as I could see.
No, you should use "/usr/local", not "/usr", you got it wrong. The local tree is reserved precisely for those packages compiled /locally/, whereas the packager of the distro uses "/usr". This way it is easy to know which version is the "official" one and which is yours. Some people use a separate partition for /usr/local, so that we can format "/" while keeping our /usr/local intact. Ie, SuSE does not use "/usr/local" because it is reserved for *you*. ;-) One more detail: you will see that users may have the /usr/local/bin first in their path, but often root does not even have it included - on purpose so as to execute "official" programs only. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGNR0utTMYHG2NR9URAhcIAKCTr6sFiReX1hhFbI0VeMQGdjhUpwCghqVt 70SMVKSSgD55v8+a7DxRcyk= =j51v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org