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> You seem to have in mind rather sophisticated installers.  Those will
> be able to specify options to get whatever they want.  Many, though,
> are not so sophisticated; for them, the defaults "just happen".
> They are likely to get info files divided between /usr/share/info and
> /usr/local/share/info without ever thinking about whether they wanted
> that.

And they'll get executables in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin.
Seems quite normal to me.


	Stefan