On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:32:30AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> My reluctance to do that is because the standard place to look for DLLs >and >>> programs on Cygwin is /usr/bin. I don't understand why, because they need >to >>> be in a subdirectory, they should transfer to the less obvious /usr/lib >>> tree. >> >> The FHS dictates no subdirectories in /usr/bin and I think it's a good >> rule. Program specific subdirectories belong in /usr/lib. > >... > >> Why didn't rpm just put its binaries in /usr/bin/rpm? Why didn't qt put >> them in /usr/bin/qt? Regardless of the reason, they put their packages >> in /usr/lib. So should you. > >OK, I'll use /usr/lib. > >Though the FHS actually permits subdirs of /usr/bin, even defining the >meaning of one subdir, /usr/bin/mh > >http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRBINMOSTUSERCOMMANDS
Hmm. I couldn't get through to pathname.com last night and relied on a secondary reference which stated in no uncertain terms that subdirectories should not be created. You just can't trust the internet... cgf