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Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody



On November 20, 2003 at 11:53AM -0800,
Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:

[...]

>    that's why I don't like alien (or other ways to install
> rpms) - I'd much rather have tarball (either binary that goes
> into /opt/package-version or 'normal' source tarball that I can
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/package-version && make && make
> install)

I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source
packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename
and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.



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