From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) Subject: Re: No /usr/local please (Re: Help: Need TeX/LaTeX linked with jump table 4.1) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 02:33:07 GMT
tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
> i certainly agree with HJ and Rik: standard LINUX stuff like TeX (and Emacs,
>XFree86, etc) dont belong in a local dir.
> where programs expect TeX stuff is NOT a problem (not with dvips, dvixx, or
>xdvi anyway) besides one can always use environmentals or symbolic links.
> the important poinbt, perhaps philosophical, is that the standard stuff
>for the os doesnt belong in /usr/local.
I see absolutely *NO* reason to move packages from where the author has
decided to place them. This only increases setup and porting problems.
Further, System utilities such as the fileutils, shellutils, etc should go
in /bin or /usr/bin as needed (in bin if you need them to recover a crahsed
partition, and in /usr/bin if they aren't needed to recover a crashed
partition).
Software 'packages' such as TeX should *NOT* (IMHO) be mixed with the
'system utilities' because they *AREN'T* system standard - not every system
will have them.
A 'standard' linux system should have the same utils in /bin and /usr/bin.
Anything that is not a 'system utility' should go elsewhere (/usr/local/bin
being the standard on *EVERY* system I have an account on, including my
home linux box).
Even X11R5 is installed under /usr/local on the local student mainframes.
I guess my point is, why change what is standard when the standard isn't
broke?
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