Ticket #53 (closed Defect: wontfix)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Wrong prefix used with OpenSuse 10.2

Reported by: blakemadden2 Assigned to: taj
Priority: Medium Milestone:
Component: main Version: 1.2.4
Severity: Normal Keywords:
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Description

When I install to OpenSuse? 10.2 (KDE desktop), the PREFIX that autopackage uses is "/usr" instead of "/usr/locale". "/usr/locale" is the correct one because that is where every program on my system gets installed to, and wxWidgets also reports it as "/usr/locale" with wxStandardPaths::GetPrefix?().

Change History

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 09/27/07 19:10:11 changed by taj

/usr/locale is usually used for translations of programs, not the programs themselves. Are you sure that applications are supposed to go in there, because that's definitely a bug in the distro. What does the command

$ which kate

return when run from the command line?

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 09/30/07 14:28:25 changed by isak

Replying to taj:

/usr/locale is usually used for translations of programs, not the programs themselves. Are you sure that applications are supposed to go in there, because that's definitely a bug in the distro.

This must be a type-o, right? He's probably talking about /usr/local. blakemadden2, we don't install to /usr/local because it causes integration problems (menu items not showing up etc.). See BrokenUsrLocal, UsrLocalStatus and the FAQ for more information.

Ultimately, we hope to "fix" this and install to /usr/local by default, but that won't happen unless we are sure the user's system supports it fully.

12/30/07 00:01:06 changed by taj

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

When distros support /usr/local we can fix this...