From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBCiv-0002Rd-RT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:13:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1KFBxiM006302; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:11:59 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1KF6w5L015630 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:06:58 GMT Received: (qmail 9536 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2006 15:06:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Feb 2006 15:06:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:54:00 -0500 (EST) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman In-Reply-To: <43F98314.5080502@web.de> Message-ID: References: <43F98314.5080502@web.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 937a8fab-480d-45b0-b1d3-6e759f7315e2 X-Archives-Hash: 7a5d6533ed9bea5840a42df3c4eb75d9 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. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list