> Dennis Clarke writes: >> look at that .. the SFW stuff goes into /bin and not /usr/sfw/bin > > Yes. We're trying to get rid of the /usr/sfw/bin botch as best we > can, or at least not allow it to grow. >
why not /opt/sfw ? > The original reason for /usr/sfw was to prevent users from wandering > into External (extremely volatile; not necessarily compatible from > patch to patch) software. But with GNOME integrating into /usr/bin as > External and with the realization that the pain of torquing every > $PATH was much higher than the value (if any) gained from the > segregation, we've decided to drop the idea. > > (There are other reasons behind it, but the lack of a firm grounding > for differentiation by stability was the key issue.) uh huh .... dc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
