[GRASS5] grass directory structure and locations

[Dennis Veatch]

Hopefully I am on the right mail list, if not then please point me elsewhere.

A little background on my distro. Running a source based distro called 
Lunar-Linux ( http://www.lunar-linux.org/ ) and I am creating some install 
modules for grass, postgis and qgis. They all install fine but I have noticed 
one thing.

One of the abilities of Lunar-Linux is to perform integrity checks on 
installed items. These checks consist of discovering missing binary 
executable, libraries and header files, modified binaries and libraries, 
misowned symlinks to files and broken executable and libraries. 

When I run these checks gqis fails sanity checks because the grass libs seem 
to be in a non-standard location. At least that is how it appears to me. In 
my limited experience an apps libs usually go in /usr/lib or /lib. 

And I see that the grass install essentially creates it's own tree under /usr. 
One thing I have not done yet is to add /usr/grass to ld.so.conf. Which I'm 
sure would take of the failed sanity checks. But I am curious as to why grass 
does not use the "normal" directory locations of Unix/UNIX/Linux.

Any enlightenment is greatly appreciated.