* SuSe List User [Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:46:41 -0800 (PST)]:
My only bone with SuSE is the current installation process. I wish you had more granular control over what is installed and where.
But you do have that granular control over what is installed. YaST2 offers you the choice to select single packages. From there you may select/deselect whatever package you want. That you can't choose *where* to install them has a few reasons: - Some packages depend on finding things from other packages in certain places, i.e. configuration is done at compile time. - FHS/LSB standardise where quite a few things have to go. - Many RPMs aren't relocatable.
I am old school and like to compile the core services such as samba, apache, sendmail, bind, etc... and I also like to install them into my 'picky' locations.
Well, you're free to use the source RPMs, change the spec file to suit your needs and then build your own RPMs ;-) -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390