Re: FVWM: Changing FVWM's location

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:17:36 +0000

On 17 Jul 2004 05:06:20 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> Mikhael wrote:
> >
> > You may freely assume that /usr/local/fvwm (or /opt/fvwm) is the
> > location allocated for FVWM on any unix system, just use it. Require
> > to setup one symlink at this location to the actual prefix.
>
> No you can't. This would be true for red hat systems with root access
> but in general would be false (debian for example doesn't even have
> /opt).

I don't think you understood me correctly. Of course, standards define
both locations /usr/local and /opt to be local, they can't be used by the
core system, so a local sysadmin should mkdir them first if needed.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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