Re: Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>]

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 16:59 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:

> 
> Why should Fedora and Red Hat encourage installing software in a
> non-standard method?

I agree with you that rpm is the proper way to install software on an
rpm based system.

However, some software is not available as rpm - and I don't believe
that the end user should be responsible for creating an rpm themselves.

There should at least be basic support (IE ldconfig knowing about stuff
in /usr/local/lib) for installing software from source, which would also
allow tools like autopackage to install there and not conflict with the
rpm system.