Compiling programs and KDE
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Feb 9 17:51:41 UTC 2005
David Cary Hart wrote:
> Almost every package is compiled with --prefix=/usr (including KDE) when
> installing to RH or Fedora.
I objected:
> When the file is installed using RPM.
Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> Uh, that is not an rpm thing. Download a gnome rpm from Suse and see
> how they hack together a combo of /opt/gnome and /etc/opt/gnome for
> prefix and sysconfdir paths.
Sorry: I can't have been clear. I meant that the Red Hat / Fedora
practice was to use /usr for RPMs / SRPMs, not that RPM is designed to
enforce that. SuSE is another country: they do things differently
there...
<lots of good stuff snipped>
James.
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