Re: Installation directory confusion

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On lun, 2002-08-19 at 23:18, j.m.maurer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This one is bugging me for a while now: diving make installs AbiWord in
> /usr/share, while the auto* build installs AbiWord in /usr/local/share.

This is a bug.

> Could both build systems install in the same directory or is there some
> deeper meaning of it that I can't seem to get?

They should.
 
> if not, I would vote for using /usr/share, but only due to the fact that
> RH uses that path....

NO. Thou shalt no install something in /usr that don't belong to the
system. /usr/local (or /opt) is prefered. Note that by "belong to the
system", it also mean "part of the distribution".
In short, make install should install by default in /usr/local, and
onlyt packages designed for the distribution should install in /usr

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