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[Les Mikesell]

Gene Poole wrote:

>> both apache and tomcat are part of Fedora packaging and they are
>> installed in the places where the packagers intended. If you decide to
>> compile your own packages from source and not use the packages as
>> provided by the distribution, you are taking it entirely into your own
>> hands and thereby rendering the reasoned placement moot.
>>
>> By convention, packages installed from source are placed in /usr/local,
>> probably for very good reasons (i.e. no chance of tainting other
>> necessary packages)


> This sounds like, going forward, I'll have less to say about where I place
> software than with M$!

If you want to use any packaged (rpm) programs you have to make sure 
that locally compiled programs don't conflict, so /usr/local works for 
that - and is the default for most source installs.

> Also, if they are going to do that then the documentation needs to tell me
> ahead of time what file systems need how much space since we divide up the
> hard disk before installing software.
> 
> I feel like I'm going backwards - use the provided RPM or else!

Or else it's your responsibility to keep it out of the way of the 
packaged versions and rebuild it yourself every time it needs an update. 
  There are still some things where this is worth the trouble, but I 
don't think apache and tomcat would be.  What do you get with your own 
build that isn't in the RPM version?

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    Les Mikesell
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