Re: Compiling programs and KDE

From: Johnathan Bailes (johnathan.bailes_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/09/05

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    On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:33:52 +0000, James Wilkinson
    <james@westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
    > David Cary Hart wrote:
    > > Almost every package is compiled with --prefix=/usr (including KDE) when
    > > installing to RH or Fedora.
    >
    > When the file is installed using RPM.
    >

    Uh, that is not an rpm thing. Download a gnome rpm from Suse and see
    how they hack together a combo of /opt/gnome and /etc/opt/gnome for
    prefix and sysconfdir paths.

    >
    > That's arguable.
    >
    > I'd recommend that if you *aren't* using RPM, put files in /usr/local.
    > Keep one area for RPM to manage, and one area that it won't touch. Then
    > you don't have to worry about yum update pulling in a new package that
    > overwrites a file that you compiled yourself.
    >
    > James.
    >

    That fits my usual rant about locally compiled programs should be the
    only ones installed in /usr/local no matter what the wonderful folks
    at sunfreeware.com think or what the makers of linux games think
    either /usr/local/games? I hate that it breaks the whole damn model
    for the filesystem and certain tools based on the whole loki stuff
    don't want it any other way either.

    / = stuff needed to boot.

    /usr = userland programs accessible to everyone.

    /usr/local = locally compiled stuff.

    /opt = optional commercial software.

    Just the way it should be. However, locally compiled programs in
    /usr/local have issues with gconf schemas and such and a lot of care
    has to be taken for gnome programs and various options. Damn thing
    should read for various standard locations for gconf key info
    including prefix/etc/gconf (homedir)/.gconf and also
    /usr/local/etc/gconf. In fact I might file a bug on that. 

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