I think I read somewhere that you should use /opt for non-system
programs. Some packages of Tcl/Tk install in /opt/tcltk (the ones I
found on RPMFIND).
The package beeing relocatable with /opt as prefix, you should
be able to install it in /usr/local.
Let me know if this works. I can easily change the install
directory back to /usr/local if this is what should be used.
Christian
Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:07, Stef Pillaert wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > I noticed that the rpm-distribution of the latest vtcl wants to install
> > > things in /opt, while I used /usr/local/ before. Is there a reason to
> > > prefer /opt above /usr/local, or is this system-dependent (I use Redhat, so
> > > mabe that's the reason)
>
> I use Debian, which has a policy that no official packages install
> anything into /usr/local, because that's where users put their own stuff.
>
> This works out great, because almost every tarball that you download and
> compile and install defaults to /usr/local.
>
> Debian would likely put vtcl in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc instead of /opt. I
> wouldn't be surprised (but just a guess - I haven't ever used RedHat) if
> few or no official (compliant) rpm packages place anything in /usr/local.
> So, if for example there wasn't an rpm at all for vtcl, /usr/local would
> be exactly the place for you to place it yourself.
>
> There are one or more efforts underway to standardize such things, such as
> the Linux filesystem layout (FSSTND or something like that) and even to
> standardize Linux distributions (LSB - Linux Standard Base, I think).
> These have been around for quite awhile but I'm not sure of the current
> status. So, you would expect that /opt would someday either be official or
> discarded as practice and that all the major distributions would
> eventually rearrange to be compliant.
>
> ...RickM...
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