From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind) Subject: Re: No /usr/local please (Re: Help: Need TeX/LaTeX linked with jump table 4.1) Date: 21 Sep 1992 11:09:46 GMT
In article <1992Sep20.104505.6871@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
I have a suggestion. We drop /usr/local for those
essential stuffs, like TeX, groff, ...... I'd like
to see those good stuffs be the part of standard
Linux distribution.
Linux should be as unix as possible! Linux should be as standard as possible,
no messing around with unstandard locations of programs. TeX always resides
at /usr/local and this is where it will be in the future. It is of course always
possible for anyone who don' like local to move everything in /usr/local to /usr
and recofigure everything ( and later realize that a link from /usr/ to /usr/local
wouldn't be so bad :-).
As for standard distribution : A program can be in the distrubution even if
it's in /usr/local !
Thanks.
H.J.