On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:55, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo"> > > > > Considering how much software still defaults to building/installing in > > > /usr/local/... > > > > Exactly. This is the right thing to do. > > Personally, I like /usr/local/stow. Because then I can use GNU stow(1) for > great justice!
Or better yet, xstow: http://xstow.sourceforge.net/ Despite the name, it has nothing to do with X. It is, however, more functional than GNU stow. An worthy alternative is checkinstall, but I haven't touched that one in years. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago." - Microsoft C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer, 1997
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