[M3devel] Reasoning for /usr/local/cm3 ?

[Martin Bishop]

Olaf Wagner wrote:
> Quoting Martin Bishop <mbishop at esoteriq.org>:
>
>> Why does everything install into /usr/local/cm3/* ?  I tried editing my
>> PATH variable to get the cm3 binary in there, but I still have to
>> 'source /etc/profile' with every shell.  And if I symlink it, it causes
>> problems.
>
> The paths are different on different systems. /usr/local/cm3 is just
> the system-specifics-ignoring default of a generic cm3 installation.
> System-specific packages are currently being prepared by some
> people, but not yet finished as far as I know. There should be
> mails in the archives about download locations.
>
>> Is there a reason to not just install to normal positions like /usr/bin
>> and /usr/lib, etc?  Is it possible to tell cminstall where to install
>> other the default /usr/local/cm3 ?
>
> Sure. Just give cminstall the target directory as argument.
> It will always install a complete tree though (bin, lib, pkg, doc, 
> www, ...)
Oh!  Didn't know that.  Thanks