On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:14:20PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Right now you have 2 samba installed - one in /usr/bin and one in > > /usr/local/bin > All source projects are built by default to prefix=/usr/local, while rpm are > built with prefix=/usr, is there a good reason for that? Indeed there is. You might want to read the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) sometimes, I personally find it a very interesting and informative document about the filesystem design ideas. To sum it up though, the idea is to avoid clashes between the system's software and the administrator's. For example, the system might require Apache 1.3 in /usr while the admin installs 2.0 in /usr/local without having to worry about hitting some name in RPM. They can then also find all of their installed software and remove it easily, or export the entire /usr/local hierarchy through NFS or equivalent to the entire local network. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
