Subject:
|
Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:46:45 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1475 times
|
| |
|
|
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:43:29 GMT mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote
> I really like RPM (and package managers in general). It really gives you a
> lot of power, and helps keep your system manageable.
>
> I'd recommend installing anything you build yourself into /usr/local -- that
> way, you keep the RPM database there for the rest of your system, but can
> still have stuff you've compiled yourself.
the only problem with that, is the under the current setup, we have
/usr/local an NFS exported directory (which make a lot of sense, as
long as you're not too worried about internal security), so when I
want to test something new, I don't want it exported to all the linux
clients... that's when I start installing stuff to /usr.
Dan
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
| (...) Ah. Yeah, some of the departments I support do a similar thing. (Largely, we use AFS, but we've got some holdouts....) I've tried to move most of them to making the exported directory be /usr/local/somethingorother instead of just /usr/local. (...) (27 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
|
| (...) I really like RPM (and package managers in general). It really gives you a lot of power, and helps keep your system manageable. I'd recommend installing anything you build yourself into /usr/local -- that way, you keep the RPM database there (...) (27 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
11 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
