Rainer Orth wrote: > 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.
Normally, users would not need to add version specific directories to their PATH, /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin would work just fine in the case where only one version of gcc is installed. George > > Rainer > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
