Re: convenience script for building a.out packages
> From @mongo.pixar.com:debian-user-request@Pixar.com Tue Nov 28 16:35:58 1995
> Old-Return-Path: <mitchell@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:32:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>
> To: ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk, scott@statsci.com
> Subject: Re: convenience script for building a.out packages
> Cc: debian-devel@Pixar.com, debian-user@Pixar.com
>
> Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> said:
>
> > Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
> > > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
> > > that it ought to be called something else. with-aout perhaps.
> >[...]
> > Actually, I would argue that the _directory_ be someWHERE else. [...]
>
> Good point. From FSSTND 1.2, 3/28/95, section 3.1, para three:
>
> There should be no subdirectories within /bin.
>
> Given the intention of FSSTND compliance, this is an absolute
> prohibition.
Well the FSSTND prohibit to have a subdirectiry within /bin, not within
/usr/bin... they even give /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/bin/mh as directories
for X11 and MH mail system binaries.
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