Thread: "Install here" : why Linux doesn't do it?
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2010-10-12 , 20:39
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Originally Posted by TiagoTiago View Post
I would rather not have to jump thru hoops or wait till after the installation already happened in order to have a program be installed in different folders than the default; like i said early in this thread, similarly to how it is with most install process with Windows
that cant be helped

You have that kind of "culture" in every os.

i've been there too.

In windows, i really HATE how programs decides the names and the pathes of the variables inside the windows registry. I really want to change the names, or at least, to let the programs to change the registry keys names and pathes in the installation procedure, and i feel exactly like you, it cant be done. i only must accept it

in linux, i have the same situation: packages decides the pathes, and that cant be changed.

in the linux way, the world doesnt ends there: everything has a workaround.

For me, the solution has been to use GENTOO, another linux distribution that lets you to install your programs where you want them.

Not everyone needs it, thats why the linux distribution method works, and everyone in peace.

Maybe you could try it too.