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[Dan Delaney <address@concealed>]

Warren Howard wrote:
> B.T.W In the past I've seen a mailman install done completely under
> /home/mailman, so I don't think that installing under /home is all that
> unheard of!

Indeed. I've seen things placed in all kinds of places. My point is 
that the "norm" is for ./configure to default to placing the app's 
directory in /usr/local. Thus, Apache 2 defaults to 
/usr/local/apache2, Mailman defaults to /usr/local/mailman, and many 
others follow this norm.

What I'm wondering is why doesn't sympa's configure script default 
to installing sympa to /usr/local/sympa ? Section 2.1 of the online 
manual seems to suggest that this is what it's supposed to do. Yet 
for some reason it defaults to /home/sympa.

What seems odd is this: Section 3.3 of the online manual shows that 
the configure script defaults to /home/sympa. Then right under that, 
in section 3.3.1 "Choosing directory locations" it states: "For the 
default organization of directories, please refer to 2.1". Section 
2.1 then states that the default directories are supposed to be in 
/usr/local/sympa-stable.

At least it did yesterday before someone changed it :-) Hahaha!

I'm thinking /usr/local/sympa makes more sense, and it more "normal" 
(as 'twere) than /home/sympa because /usr/local is where most admins 
place the software they install manually from source. So I think it 
would have made more sense to change what configure default to 
rather than change section 2.1 of the manual.

Anyhoo, from what I can tell, in order to get it to be installed 
into /usr/local/sympa, I have to do the following configure parameters:

./configure --prefix /usr/local/sympa \
--with-confdir=/usr/local/sympa/conf \
--with-mandir=/usr/local/sympa/man

Does that look about right? Am I missing any directories?

Thanks
--Dan