[BRLTTY] Brltty woes on Centos 7
Adrian van Bloois
adrian at pa0rda.nl
Thu Mar 2 17:14:48 EST 2017
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:04:04PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/03/02 at 20:51 +0100]
>
> >With the GNU software I don't do these things, just type ./configure ,
> >make and make install.
> >It would be nice if brltty would be the same.
>
> Do all those packages really always default to --prefix=/usr/local?
Yes they do. Admins dont want to have additional packages to interfere
with the OS part, I've been hating that for 35 years.
>
> I'm not convinced that that's the right default for brltty. As always, though,
> I'm open to hearing everyone's opinions on the matter.
OS's like Redhat who want to add it to there base are good enough to put
it where they want.
>
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