> Most software allows this without issues -- just run "./configure > --prefix=$HOME". You need to adjust $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH inside > your shell startup scripts, and you're done.
This will not work. Let's imagine that user have installed some program A in $HOME. Then user set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for program A. Suppoze that A calls some Debian's program B (with "system()" C function for example). In this case Debian's program B will catch $LD_LIBRARY_PATH which is incorrect for B, but correct for A. How many things will be bad if we add rpath=/lib:/usr/lib or rpath=$DEB_LD_LIBRARY_PATH to all Debian binaries? :-) By the way: does Debian have step-by-step instructions for system-wide and user-only installation of non-Debian programs? It is common tasks for any operating system. So solutions for this tasks must be easy, comfortable and well-documented. Regards, Sergey. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
