Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > I mean, if my apps need to be called as "helloworld" and it looks at a > conf file called "helloword.conf", why I have to copy the executable in > /usr/bin and the conf file in /etc while I can just copy it to > /usr/local/bin (owned or writable by 'user) and the conf file in > /usr/local/etc ? (just to give an example) and add /usr/local/bin to > the path? Yes it was similar except /usr/local was /var/lib/install. And it was done in such way that no package could ever put file outside of /var/lib/install (the only way that gives you some additional security you probably want). So you had 2 classes of packages (system ones in / and user ones in /var/lib/install) which made system more complex and prevented you from making 'system' packages i.e. ones which modifes or extends the system in interesting way. Frantisek
