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Re: testing consistency
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: testing consistency
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:08:58 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: rth at cygnus dot com (Richard Henderson)
> Packages manually compiled by the user (not using the package management
> system) belong in /usr/local, not /usr, on any well-run Linux system.
>
> Yes, I have violated this rule. But gcc should not do it by default.
I think I agree with Per on this issue. The package manager has control
of /usr, and /usr/local is strictly off-limits to the manager.
Besides, it isn't like you have to patch gcc to get it to go either place,
argument(s) to configure is all it takes.
r~