[PLUG] Resolved: Compiling Varkon

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> To make a long story short, I followed the tutorial's instructions with
> only one exception: instead of creating /usr/local/varkon_nnn, I created
> /usr/varkon as root,

Dick,

   The reason this is not a Good Thing(TM) is that an OS upgrade can overwrite
everything in /usr, including your new directory for varkon. It's much better
practice to install local software in /usr/local/ or /opt (for optional).
Distributions will not write to these directories during an upgrade.

Rich

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