From: bet@sbi.com (Bennett Todd @ Salomon Brothers Inc., NY ) Subject: Re: A discipline for packages Date: 7 Jan 1993 04:22:46 GMT
In article <FOX.93Jan2230832@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
>Furthermore, I don't think that this would involve terribly many
>symbolic links. Most files which go into places like /usr/lib
>don't really *need* to be there. They just have nowhere else to
>go. For example, stuff like the tex fonts could go in /packages/tex.
I'd rather see compiled-in paths (for things like files you'd put under lib)
be /usr/lib/pkgname/* for system core stuff and /usr/local/lib/pkgname/* for
minor packages. This is only one more link, and the resulting executables
work fine even if someone wants to unstall them somewhere else besides
(e.g.) /packages. I'd probably use /usr/local/pkg/tex, for example, if the
tex system was built to look for its lib files under /usr/local/lib/tex.
-Bennett
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