Re: netscape woes

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
>   >     Question #1:  The location /usr/local is reserved (by the Filesystem
>   >Standard) for packages/programs you the local admin/user installs
>   >yourself.  These programs are not known by the Debian/dpkg system.  dpkg
>   >is not allowed to do anything in /usr/local, thus it must install the
>   >things it deals with (*.deb) elsewhere.
> 
> To be strictly accurate, this is not a restriction in dpkg but in policy.
> If a package says a file in in /usr/local, dpkg will put it there; but
> Debian maintainers must not allow their packages to put files in
> /usr/local.
> 
> It is perfectly possible for you to make packages for local use which
> could legitimately use /usr/local. You would be aggrieved if dpkg were
> to override your wishes!
> 
> --
> Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk


	Yes, you said it better than I did.  :-)


-- 
Ed C.