Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632856 --- Comment #3 from Dave Ludlow <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-25 14:31:05 EDT --- Robert: The %global statements are used to make it so that information is specified once instead of scattered throughout the file. It also makes maintainability easier since you can confidently change the information without worrying about subtle side effects. See also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#.25global_preferred_over_.25define The prefix and libdir are specified so that the files are installed to /usr/bin and /usr/lib* instead of /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib*. Packages install their files into /usr, hand-compiled programs install their files into /usr/local. See also the '/usr/local' section of: http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review