Re: Installation-issues

[Adrian Ratnapala <s369625@student.uq.edu.au>]

yOn Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Christian Reiniger wrote:

> Uh, I don't like the idea of /opt/bin etc. After all that's what /usr/local
> is for IIRC...

Exactly.

> 
> Yep, but don't rely only on rpm. Some people (like me) prefer to install
> (almost) everything from source and thus have to remove the stuff by hand.
> Deleting a dir in /opt and after that the stale symlinks in /usr/local/* is
> easy.
> 
Besides if you use rpm properly, you can just install straign
to /usr (in fact you should).   You only need to worry about
"hand made" installs.