Package/Build-From-Source Management

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 05:24, David Abrahams wrote:
> > It has nothing to do with your packages. What he is saying is
> > that if
> > you install stuff yourself and put it in /usr/local (the
> > recommended
> > place for such things) then it doesn't interfere with the rest of
> > the
> > system.
>
> Well, sure it does, if usr/local/bin is in the path and
> usr/local/lib
> is searched for libraries.  Then the package manager might not see
> the
> stuff in /usr/local, but certainly any program loading dynamic
> libraries or launching other programs _will_ see it.  

Sorry, my bad typo:

s/rest of the system/rest of the packaging system/

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Alan McKinnon
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