On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source tarball that I can ./configure --prefix=/opt/package-version && make && make install)
I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.
exactly
shouldn't that be a requirement? if the package is not signed by a debian maintainer it can only touch /opt (and possibly /usr/local) or something like that? (debian package system would create a directory in opt, make it writable by some user, sudo into that user, run install of particular package or something like that)
at this point my personal rule is to install either official debian package or force the install into /opt (nicely or not so nicely:-)
erik
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