/usr/local?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-08-31 01:36 , David J. Haines wrote:
> That's exactly what I was talking about.  I understand the potential  
> problems, but that's OK with me (and, presumably others like me).  If  
> one is savvy enough to be using the "--prefix" flag, one should be  
> willing to put up with the potential problems doing so entails.   

Getting up to ./configure --prefix=$foo is quite easy and does not
require any special knowledge.

> Perhaps a warning - even one saying that such installs are unsupported  
> - would be in order  but outright denying such installs isn't.

We know it would not work, so we do not allow it. Why do you insist on
/usr/local even if it does not work?

Rainer