relocatable packages ?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jun 22 03:51:23 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:47 -0700, David Kewley wrote:
> I've made relocatable rpms for e.g. Matlab.  My idea is that I want it 
> in /opt but my colleague across campus might want it in /usr/local/.  
> No way does it belong in /usr.
> 
> Is there something wrong with using relocations in such a case?
> 

no - but they'll be almost impossible to deal with via any pkg mgr.

-sv





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