>Changing where the files go would require more complex decisions to make everything "just work". Since when things "just working" has been a core design philo

>Changing where the files go would require more complex decisions to make everything "just work". Since when things "just working" has been a core design philosophy of *nix systems? Also, you do realize that the end result is that the things that should work just don't? In my opinion, it's a design failure that [download the source - unpack - configure - make - make install] is a viable path to get something to work, but [yum install]" is not.