On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Tom Holmes Jr. wrote:
This type of installation seems to install data/apps ALL over the place ... but that is an issue with CentOS and not Drupal. I'm used to not installing Apache/PHP on my Linux systems with the install because of that. I like to install apps where I want them to be. And kinda keep the apps together neatly. So I usually download and install the OS is installed.
That's actually typical of most OSes, particularly Unixes. It's one reason why installing and managing software independent of a package manager is only for the extremely skilled and/or stupid. (Those two are not mutually exclusive.) Even Windows does that, to a lesser degree. (Registry, System32 directory, etc. It's a mess there, too.) Mac OS X is the odd man out here, and their setup has a different set of problems associated with it.
But yeah, nothing to do with Drupal. Web apps *should* be self-contained like that (as Drupal is). If they're not, they suck.