>>>>> "Paul" == Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Paul, just adding my two cents, [...] Paul> There are curious parts of debian. Debian has a religious Paul> issues with /usr/local. Not so. Please go read up on the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, /usr/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.*.gz in the debian-policy package). That explains it all. Except for the packages I install myself, from source, any package that puts stuff into /usr/local is off my machine before it's really settled. /usr/local is local admin territory... with which I can do whatever I like. Paul> Some packages really want to be there (I.e. apache). I've installed 1.2 apaches manually, and AFAICR, it was quite configurable wrt were it should put its files, so I can't follow you here. Paul> You just have to watch when you read documentation which Paul> assumes the software was installed in the /usr/local Paul> directory. If such documentation doesn't mention that the package might actually reside somewhere else, that documentation (HOWTO, book, whatever...) is broken. Paul> Some publicly available scripts must be modified as well. Paul> All in all, very workable. When I publish scripts I make them location-agnostic... for example, my Python scripts either start with #!/usr/bin/env python, or are generated from a <scriptname>.in file by an autoconf `configure' script. Paul> Just a curious departure. As I explained above, not very curious... it's rather the norm (all major distributions are moving to FHS in the long term... or have said so, at least ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) Shah, shah! Ayatollah you so!
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