On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, drieux wrote:
> On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 10:37 , Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > /sw/bin/
>
> can someone clue me into why we are inserting another
> directory into all of this????
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/general.php#usr-local
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/general.php#why-sw
There are several reasons, but the common line is "because breakage
will occur".
[snip]
All that said, it is possible to install Fink into /usr/local. The
installation script will warn you explicitly, but proceed once you
acknowledge that you're doing this at your own risk.
This is an often repeated question & I don't see why it's such a big deal.
Given the explanation cited at the URL above, and reading through the
problems people have on the Fink lists, I feel that putting everything for
Fink under /sw was not an unwise move and for most people it will work
fine. If it really bugs you that much though, no big deal -- just change
it at install time or, after installing [hopefully] just move the base
directory and update your ${FINKDIR}/etc/fink.conf file to match.
Objection to the folder naming scheme is pretty petty in comparison to how
easy Fink makes it to get all your *nix software up & running happily :)
--
Chris Devers
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