Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > If you're not a distribution provider, you should not be > putting things in the distribution provider's space (/usr). > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Once I decide to put something in /usr I become a distribution provider. And that is okay. It is my local system and that is allowed to me to set local policy. I just can't complain if an upstream change conflicts with something *I* did locally. I will have to react appropriately to resolve that potential future issue. I am both a producer and consumer of the result. Even if a conflict arises if I am choosing my software over the distro's software then that is my choice to make. I could even distribute my modified system to someone else with parts of this and parts of that cobbled together. This is often done. Look at all of the derived and customized distros available today. But then I create a large burden on myself to support that custom distribution to other users. What might be fine for me locally might be a disaster as a general thing. If I can't support them properly then it is not fair to them. But some people do an excellent job of this. Look at KNOPPIX for example. I however am not inclined to do that much work. But locally across all of my machines using rpm to manage my custom packages is a useful thing to do. Bob _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
