Encouraging the use of multiple packaging systems on one systems, and the resulting problems (was: re: /usr/local)
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Fri Oct 21 22:31:17 UTC 2005
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.
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