Talk:TIP install programs without portage

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This article describes installing into /usr/non-portage, but isn't that what /usr/local is for? And /usr/local has the added advantage of actually being a standard Unix path ... And then of course there's /opt as well ...

you are right. I added a note

Why not just change the whole article to explain how to use /usr/local then? No need to confuse anyone with this /usr/non-portage nonsense. Also, I really don't see the need for the new user creating/permission changing part. Allowing normal users to install programs is a whole different topic, not related to how to install programs without portage, at all. This article should assume the user is already able to install stuff and therefore has root access. I'd like to have some feedback on that. This article needs some serious clean-up. 66.131.163.253 17:27, 19 February 2006 (GMT)

[edit] RPMs section

This is a strange manual indeed. The "reader's sample test" obviously shows that it doesn't work. I simply went for rpm -Uvh --nodeps package.rpm and it worked fine for me.

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