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- From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
- Subject: Re: What happened to /usr/local
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.011833.11232@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
- References: <sens.31.727099937@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> <1j7jkqINNgjm@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:18:33 GMT
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- >I'm not really bitching at you about this, but a common attitude most people
- >have is that they have to ask before they do anything.
- >
- >Remember this is YOUR system. You can organize and put things where you like.
- >If you don't like X at /usr/X386, recompile it and put it where you want it.
-
- Of course every one can organize their system in any way. Even every
- commercial vendor can do this. However, they don't. That's because
- common conventions are so valuable, be it a home system or a bigger one.
- Installing programs by a whim to unusual places leads to problems you
- mention below among others. That's why it's quite reasonable to ask what
- the consensus of a particular matter is even when you are free to do
- anyway you want.
-
- >Granted some packages have paths precompiled into them, so moving them means
- >you would have to recompile, but then again that is your choice. I
- >recompiled TeX, to put it where I wanted it (/usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc..).
- >But, when I recompiled X, I left it in /usr/X386 just so removing it was
- >easier.
- --
- dos, windows, nt... are you a victim of the MS disease?
-