On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:52:35AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, 05 May 2000 02:45:50 Colin Watson wrote: > > And, as a side note, I understand that the reason this is there by > > default is that the hurd-i386 architecture is using the same source for > > the base-files packages as other architectures, > > but it is architecture: any, so we can get special hurd changes in. > > We have two possible sceanrios: Support /usr being a real directory by > default, > or doing it not. > > Scenario: Support for a real /usr: > PATH=/usr/bin:/bin: (etc etc) > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/X11R6/lib > > Scenario: No support for a real /usr: > PATH=/bin: (etc etc) > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib > > Note that currently we don't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all, but we should. > This > is something we need to change anyway, so I will file a bug report. But > which > of the two scenarios do we want?
My vote for second scenario /usr exists only due to histerical reasons > (BTW, it would be a nice idea to try to get X into / instead /X11R6. > Then we could > have: > > PATH=/bin:/local/bin > > (and no LD_LIBRARY_PATH)). Actually it is possible to have X in / This is my Linux box configuration (but with symlink /X11R6->/ ) And if we move it before we have full X working there won't be any problems with backward compatibility