From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0602200946490.31634@ida.bway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F98314.5080502@web.de>
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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2006-02-20 8:51 [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman Jonatan Antoni
2006-02-20 14:54 ` A. Khattri [this message]
2006-02-21 23:12 ` Nick Rout
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