From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) Subject: Re: No /usr/local please (Re: Help: Need TeX/LaTeX linked with jump table 4.1) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:39:47 GMT
In article <KREJ.92Sep21120946@erbiumx.electrum.kth.se> krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind) writes:
>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.
Sigh... Many Linux users came from DOS and Linux seems to be MessDossified.
>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 !
RIGHT ! RIGHT !
At least TeX, groff, ...etc and linux distribution should be in
different partitions. You may mount them at any point as you wish,
but /usr/local is the best and standard unix way.
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