Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Question about Linux install directory
Author Brad Pepers
On November 13, 2003 02:54 am, Fabrice Aeschbacher wrote:
> Perhaps would it be a good idea that the install script ask the user
> where he wants to install (even if /opt stays as default). What do you
> think about this solution?

RPM packages that have prompts are IMO a bad idea. They should not require
user intervention in the installation and its a better idea to make the
package relocatable. But its not as simple as asking for a directory to
install to since that misses what some of us would like which is to install
programs into /usr, libraries into /lib, docs into /usr/share/doc, ...

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Brad Pepers
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