/usr/local

[Thomas Tanner]

I'm aware that standard Debian packages would
need to adapted but it would mainly involve replacing
/usr with /usr/local (or removing /usr as /usr/local is the default
prefix in autoconf), correct?

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:23, Thomas Tanner <tanner at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Is there any good reason why Maemo does not follow the standard UNIX
>> layout with user applications in /usr/local ?
>> /usr/local seems to be in all search paths and if /usr/local
>> would be just a symlink to /home/local there would be no need
>> for further symlink tricks.
> 
> Short version: most packages will install to /usr rather than
> /usr/local, so there'd have to be build changes either way.

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