Re: [Fwd: Re: [Dlc-discuss] [Fwd: Linux fragmentation and desktop standards]]

Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday 12 April 2003 4:11 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> It is supposed to have: 'make install' but the common wisdom is
> that it is broken.  But if it did work, there is still the
> question of what to use for a: 'prefix' -- should it be installed
> in its own directory tree or not?
>
> But in any case, should the executables be installed in:
>
> 	/usr/lib/qt-x.y.z/bin/

No. I would put executables in /usr/bin or /opt/qt/bin.

But I think part of the reason that it's arranged in this manner is that Qt is 
considered a central enough part of the system by most distros to be in /usr 
but it's too difficult and dangerous to copy the source to /usr, hope that 
compilation works (and maybe i'm a 'tard, but i've never managed to 
successfully compile Qt) and then try and clean up by removing the source 
files without removing anything you want to keep. faced with such a daunting 
challenge, i'd probably end up installing it in /usr/lib/qt too.
                  
-- 
dan

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