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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:22:43 +0100
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
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To: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
CC: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
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> Why should apache go to /usr/local/apache? Name one redhat/suse/debian
> style amanaged linux distribution that puts apache there! The configure
> script for _any_ package will need parameters given to it when building
> a package to be included in cygwin.
> 
> Until now, no-one as raised the issue of changing _our_ standard, which
> is that setup.exe installed software installs into / and /usr, not into
> /usr/local. And I do not think we should change that. I don't believe
> that the users will be served by us installing into /usr/local.

If you consider point 3) from down I agree. There are some packages
that do install into  /usr/local, or am I wrong here?!

Stipe

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