[DRE-maint] Bug#448639: +1 for /usr/local

[Aigars Mahinovs]

On 3 September 2010 16:07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> Please make the defaults be /usr/local.  At the very least, make the
>> Gem binary path be /usr/locall/bin.
>>
>> Adam
>
> The comparison (at least for Python, I'm not familiar with the others) isn't
> really correct (for Debian/Ubuntu, I don't have other systems to check this
> on).  If I'm using the standard upstream packaging tool (distutils) it
> installs in /usr/local, but in a Python specific directory so the exact concern
> people have expressed about Gems is avoided.
>

Actually easy_install also installs run scripts from Python eggs (if
there are any) and those get installed into /usr/local/bin by default.

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    Aigars Mahinovs        mailto:aigarius at debian.org
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