RedHat, Fedora future?
Bevan C. Bennett
bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Fri Feb 6 18:02:18 UTC 2004
Robin Laing wrote:
> To expand on this, if it isn't included in Fedora Core, then shouldn't
> it be installed in /opt?
It ends up more like:
"If it isn't installed by Fedora's package management system, a package
-may- be installed in /opt."
Anything that's using rpm (and registering itself in the system's rpm
database) is "OS installed" (installed by the OSs own installation tools).
A third party app with it's own installer might put itself into /opt
(all the /opt software I know is complicated third party packages with
their own installers).
Packages installed by the local user (usually with ./configure;make;make
install) go into /usr/local.
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