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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:36:18 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenGL packaging
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Andre Bleau wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >If I may jump in here. The complete configure should at least set
> >--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin
> 
> You may jump anywhere, as long as you do not jump on ME ;-)

I wouldn't dare ;-)

> Then I have no more objection about moving the OpenGL package to /usr. I
> just don't understand what is so basicaly wrong about locating it in
> /usr/local. Again, I'm NOT using "configure" to package it.

It's a basic decision. All packages in the base distro are located
in / and /usr. If users install other packages they typically will
install them in /usr/local. That's the reason it's called `local'.

Corinna

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