Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?

[Rafael Bugajewski <rb@bugajewski.de>]

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18. Februar 2006 17:16, Rafael Fernández López:

> What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My
> idea is to make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that
> would like to, without having to read man configure.

New users usually do not install apps that their distro does not provide. 
Almost every distribution has a package system with a GUI. It is also better 
to install not provided applications into /usr/local/ because it is usually 
in the path environment variable, so applications can run without the whole 
path prefix (imagine new users with the following question: Where is my newly 
installed application?).

I do understand you now, but I don't think it's a useful behaviour. You could 
simply add a alias e.g. configure (./configure --prefix=~) and it would do 
the thing you want. It would be also easier for a new user because he 
wouldn't be bothered by ./

Greets,

Rafael Bugajewski

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