Re: Installing files to /usr/local (was: How to define symbolic links within a RPM spec file...)

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:35:31PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> >Also, remember that creating files in /usr/local is generally considered
> >bad RPM form.
> <http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78>

Your rpm should say --installdirs=vendor instead of --installdirs=site.

And, arguably, Fedora's "site_perl" should be defined as
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl. I think there's a bug for that in the RH
bugzilla. And yeah, there should be a "vendor" man page area somewhere.

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