Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[JoeHill]

Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:21:35PM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> > Last time I tried WoW under Wine it was perfect, I had no issues at all.
> > 
> > Installing was just like 'apt-get build-dep wine, configure, make, make
> > install'. That's it. Although on mine I did 'configure --prefix=/usr'.  
> 
> You do realize that you are asking for trouble when you do that.  Debian
> packing rules specificly state dpkg owns /usr, except /usr/local which
> it will never touch.  Use /usr/local for what it was meant for.
> 
> So if dpkg breaks wine on you, it is _your_ fault, not dpkg's.

I was going to say 'yeah, yeah', but then I was reading about installing Picasa
for Linux, and how it also installs its own Wine package, which would of course
go in /usr and completely screw my current install...

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J
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