New Maxima directory structure



Raymond Toy writes:
 > I must say that I've always hated applications that installed their
 > stuff in /usr/bin, etc.  It makes it impossible to tell if some
 > program actually came with the system or was something that I added
 > later.  

Why not let  "configure" to determine where to install. The user
can override it with --prefix=/myplace.
Isn't this the standard procedure nowdays?

osman