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.
The OpenOffice.org binary tarball defaults to /opt (at least it did in version 1.0)
-Roberto
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