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Slackware 14 released

Posted Oct 2, 2012 20:02 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Slackware 14 released by dlang
Parent article: Slackware 14 released

Don't packages usually install into /usr/local, when you do ./configure && make && sudo make install? I haven't used Slackware since 1998, but IIRC it kept most stuff in /usr/bin, not /usr/local/bin.

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Posted Oct 2, 2012 20:50 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

picking compile time options is not patching the software.

some software compiles into local, some doesn't. It varies from package to package.

Slackware 14 released

Posted Oct 7, 2012 19:40 UTC (Sun) by bersl2 (subscriber, #34928) [Link]

I actually don't recall any official Slackware packages installing into /usr/local for quite some time (aaa_base notwithstanding). In fact, most patches applied in the official SlackBuilds seems to be related to install paths of various sorts sometimes not being configurable except by changing a file.