* Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> [2006-12-13 20:22]:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:54 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >         /usr/gnu        Directory hierarchy     Stable
> >                 /bin
> >                 /sbin
> >                 /include
> >                 /lib
> >                 /libexec
> >                 /share
> >                 /share/info
> >                 /share/man
> > 
> >         /etc/gnu        Directory hierarchy     Stable
> > 
> >         /var/gnu        Directory hierarchy     Stable
> >                 /com
> 
> I realise this case only defines the namespace, but I think there
> should be more details about the expected use to avoid misinterpreting
> and misusing it, like /usr/sfw was.
> For example, right now there is no reason for using /usr/gnu/libexec
> or /usr/gnu/share/info as they have no counterparts in /usr and
> therefore no conflict is possible.
 
  I agree that /usr/gnu/share/info is non-conflicting with a possible
  /usr/share/info; will amend.

  */libexec, I admit, scares me a bit more, as I still can't tell if
  its use is consistent across upstream packages.

> BTW, I thought in the last iteration of the /usr/gnu proposal we
> were talking about /usr/share/man/man1gnu and 1GNU section, not
> /usr/gnu/share/man.

  When we learned that the section ordering support in MANPATH is
  OpenSolaris man(1)-specific, we reset to a pure path-based approach.

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/

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