Re: GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[Hubert Chan]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:00:18 +0200 (CEST), "Nicola Pero" <address@hidden> said:

[...]

>> On a system where the traditional GNUstep filesystem layout is not
>> used, the System domain should be /usr/local or /opt or whatever,
>> unless the people managing a distribution want it to be /usr on that
>> distribution of course.  I imagine that on such systems the System
>> and Local domains might be the same place.

> I don't agree at all ... the System domain will of course be /usr, and
> the Local domain will be /usr/local.  Otherwise, why do we have
> domains at all ? :-)

Well, according to the FHS, if you download GNUstep and compile it on
your own (not obtaining it from your distribution), then it should go
under /usr/local, or /opt.  In which case, Local and System are probably
equivalent, since GNUstep itself is a "local" package, and there is no
distribution involved.

But if you obtain GNUstep from your distribution, then it should
definitely go under /usr.

So IMHO by default, the System and Local domains should be /usr/local,
but the distributions will of course override that for their own
packages.

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