> > Now, play some villanous music, and enter RedHat wearing a black
cape,
> > with small, beedy eyes.
>
> I don't have a cape, but I do have a red hat. And blue eyes, normal
size.
I was going for the melodrama. : )
> > They insist that an OS should not touch /usr/local, and they're
> > right about that. However, if you choose to download the Postgres
> > RPM and install it via RPM yourself, they seem to interpret that as
> > "the OS touching /usr/local", and it won't happen.
>
> For managed distributions, the standard way of doing things is "if
> it's in the package format, put it in /usr. /usr/local is for things
> not managed by this system (rpm, deb, whatever)" (typically this
> means things installed by loki :), things compiled locally without
> package systems (configure && make install) etc.
"standard" rarely equates to "correct" or even "useful".
But I'm going to drop the rest of the message, I had all of my
arguments written out, but remembered that this is the Postgres list. The
main point of my message was that you should stick to source or RPM,
mixing the two isn't that great. I apologize if you took offense at my
comments.
steve