From: Bruno Haible Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:36:05 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: More precise wording. X-Git-Tag: v1.0~3118 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f3892304bd432c5ca3f291b3ef7d8a912a85e96;p=gnulib.git doc: More precise wording. Reported by Reuben Thomas in . * doc/relocatable.texi (Enabling Relocatability): Talk about package management systems in general. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 609011b479..42256c4089 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2021-01-26 Bruno Haible + doc: More precise wording. + Reported by Reuben Thomas in + . + * doc/relocatable.texi (Enabling Relocatability): Talk about package + management systems in general. + doc: Remove obsolete text. Suggested by Reuben Thomas in . diff --git a/doc/relocatable.texi b/doc/relocatable.texi index d2b5033363..f8eec1e680 100644 --- a/doc/relocatable.texi +++ b/doc/relocatable.texi @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ and have it work correctly (including i18n). So many users need to go through @code{configure; make; make install} with all its dependencies, options, and hurdles. -Red Hat, Debian, and similar package systems solve the ``ease of +Most package management systems, that allow the user to install +pre-built binaries of the packages, solve the ``ease of installation'' problem, but they hardwire path names, usually to @file{/usr} or @file{/usr/local}. This means that users need root privileges to install a binary package, and prevents installing two