On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Tim Foster wrote:
... It strikes me that the delivery of software, and the location it's expected to be found on across distributions is like herding cats. Even on Solaris, it's been hard enough to standardise (cf. /usr/ucb /usr/xpg4, /usr/xpg6, /usr/sfw/, /usr/gnu, etc.) ... ... If you could reduce the problem down to a set of configuration files, then where each distro puts the various different versions of the software isn't a problem...
Tim, I'm not sure I agree completely with the way you've scoped the problem. Reason being, the new rule (pending ARC approval) is basically that all GNU/FOSS stuff goes in /usr/bin. (Which admitedly, is totally non-intuitive -- one would logically assume that a proposal called /usr/gnu was about creating a place for GNU stuff to live.) In reality, the /usr/gnu location is to be used only in the case of a name collision -- in other words, as little as possible. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
