Bug 100475

Summary:	upm install path
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrizio Bassi <patrizio.bassi>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrizio Bassi 2005-07-27 08:50:12 UTC

upm installs in /usr/upm 
 
root@blight usr # ls upm/ -l 
totale 8 
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  424 15 apr 10:35 scripts/ 
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 6368 15 apr 10:35 standard.def 
root@blight usr # ls upm/ -R 
upm/: 
scripts/  standard.def 
 
upm/scripts: 
bootstrap*    exdrec*         info_handler*   kde_makefile_fix*  perl_pod_handler*  trigger_info* 
doc_handler*  final_handler*  init.d-writer*  man_handler*       reg_binary*        trigger_init.d* 
 
 
 
 
can't it use / as root?

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-11 16:03:29 UTC

> can't it use / as root?

<snip>
/usr/upm/
/usr/upm/in/
/usr/upm/env/
/usr/upm/etc/
/usr/upm/scripts/
...
/usr/upm/standard.def
/usr/upm/installed/
</snip>

So that it would clutter /usr with much more cruft? I guess not.