Nicolas Williams writes:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > George Vasick writes:
> > > Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in
> > > /usr/compilers/binutils219. It will be a separate package and not
> > > contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432.
> >
> > Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered yet:
> >
> > * Why /usr/compilers at all? We don't have /usr/webservers or
> > /usr/databases.
>
> I object to /usr/compilers also. Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers
> instead?
Since this will contain version-specific bin directories which users are
expected to add to their PATH, it shouldn't go below /usr/lib. Existing
precedent would be /usr/gcc/4.3.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
