Re: Debian and SimplyGNUstep

[Eric Heintzmann]

Vaisburd, Haim wrote:
> From: Chris B. Vetter <chrisv@web4inc.com>
>
> > By default, GNUstep installs into /usr/GNUstep. See -core/compile-all.
>
>
> Sorry for misinformation. I consistently get it in /opt
> even for clean installs. Does that mean that configure
> reads GNUSTEP... environment variables?
>
>
> > I'm aware you're talking Linux here, but let me just add that not every
> > (other) OS does have /opt...
>
>
> But Eric was talking about Debian, which is, I presume, Linux... ;-))

Yes, currently all Debian Distributions are based on Linux, but there is 
some work on Debian/Hurd, Debian/FreeBSD, Debian/NetBSD.
At least Debian/Hurd will be included in stable distributions when ready.

http://www.debian.org/ports

> /opt seems to me like a good place for "packages" like GNUstep, kde, qt etc.
> that have their own directory layout. If there are reasons for not having
> or not using /opt, I would like to learn them.
>
> Tima.