bind-9.11.0-P2 on Debian 9.0 (stretch)

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Jan 26 19:05:49 UTC 2017



Am 26.01.2017 um 19:50 schrieb Dennis Clarke:
> On 01/26/2017 06:39 PM, Alan Clegg wrote:
>> On 1/26/17 1:31 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> The POSIX and XPG4 approach [is a great idea]
>>
>> (My text in brackets)
>>
>> Said no one, ever.
>
> That wasn't the point however. The point is that the sources do
> exist for very valid reasons and that a user can and should be able to
> compile as they choose and to install as they choose.  Merely some sort
> of logic in the separation is needed and the POSIX/XPG4 manner works in
> a very stable way.  Go install a MySQL package from the Oracle download
> and see where it goes.

and if they chose ./configure --prefix=/usr there is no seperation wich 
is the whole point - which was yours excatly?

yeah you can even choose to --prefix=/usr and you will be able, but in 
most cases others are asked a few weeks later how to cleanup the broken 
stuff


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