On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:50 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> The /opt/etc and /usr/local/etc directories should only exist if you've
> installed something manually (with "make install" or a vendor-provided
> installer).  An rpm/deb package should never write to either of these
> directories.  I've never had the displeasure of dealing with this
> problem.  Are you sure you weren't dealing with a manually installed
> program?

Manually compiled or third party RPMs. For example, both Sun's and IBM's
Java RPMs have had "interesting" ideas of where to put software.

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