Mike MacCana wrote:
Why should Fedora and Red Hat encourage installing software in a non-standard method?
Forgetting about autopackage for a moment, /usr/local *is* a traditional place for administrator-installed software. It does not sound inappropriate to take it into account in the overall system setup; even if the typical system administrator might be well able to do that by himself, he's likely to appreciate the effort nonetheless. In my opinion, the problem of third-party (meaning not provided by the distribution) applications is supposed to be solved by /opt, but the suppport for /opt across distributions is arguably even less developed than for /usr/local. So maybe the real answer is "provide support for /usr/local and /opt integration". Just my $0.02 Davide Bolcioni -- Paranoia is a survival asset. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
