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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:26:07 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stipe Tolj" <tolj@wapme-systems.de>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up


> > 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?!

No packages install into /usr/local on cygwin at the moment - you are
wrong here.

What a configure script defaults to is different to where *we* install
stuff.

Rob


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