On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 16:59 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
Why should Fedora and Red Hat encourage installing software in a
non-standard method?
I agree with you that rpm is the proper way to install software on an
rpm based system.
However, some software is not available as rpm - and I don't believe
that the end user should be responsible for creating an rpm themselves.
There should at least be basic support (IE ldconfig knowing about stuff
in /usr/local/lib) for installing software from source, which would also
allow tools like autopackage to install there and not conflict with the
rpm system.