Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

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

  exactly

  shouldn't that be a requirement? if the package is not signed by a 
debian maintainer it can only touch /opt (and possibly /usr/local) or 
something like that? (debian package system would create a directory in 
opt, make it writable by some user, sudo into that user, run install of 
particular package or something like that)

  at this point my personal rule is to install either official debian 
package or force the install into /opt (nicely or not so nicely:-)

	erik