Mike MacCana wrote:
On Linux, most administrators install software by RPM, and no distinction is made between 'third party' or distro provided except the Packager field.
Agreed, but RPM-installed software does not usually end up in /usr/local. If I remember the FHS correctly, it is not supposed to end up there, as /usr/local is reserved to locally installed software and must be left untouched by a system upgrade. The typical Linux distro muddles the concept of what is a "system upgrade", e.g. is OpenOffice part of the system upgrade, but I had always regarded the wording in the FHS as a guarantee that "there should not be surprises in /usr/local". Am I wrong ? Thank you for your consideration, Davide Bolcioni -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
