[gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

[gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

[Jonatan Antoni]

Hy group,

I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to 
/usr/local/mailman.

IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing 
software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to 
place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory.

Please tell me if I'm thinking the wrong way, or if there is a better 
place for my hints on ebuilds.

thx,
Jonatan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote:

> I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to
> /usr/local/mailman.
>
> IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing
> software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to
> place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory.

Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages.

Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html).

Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST)
A. Khattri wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote:
> 
> > I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to
> > /usr/local/mailman.
> >
> > IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing
> > software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to
> > place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory.
> 
> Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages.
> 
> Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html).


in FHS that may be true, but IIRC it is not allowed for ebuilds. In fact
I got stomped on in bugzilla for suggesting it in realtion to a
different package.

My install of mailman is also in /usr/local but I had never noticed this
breach of ebuild etiquette before this thread mentioned it. Maybe there
is some good reason in this case .

> > Of course, you can change where
stuff gets installed too. > > -- > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing
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