On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:28:11AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:30:32AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > the /opt thing makes more sense to me. initscripts in > > /etc/opt/init.d, the binary cruft in /opt/package, install symlinks > > (or wrapper scripts) in /opt/bin. > > and /opt is FHS compliant. yup > so if the LSB limited itself to specifying libraries and their versions > that should be avaialble, we would have something that is 1) simple to > understand and 2) easy to implement. indeed, all the lsb cruft can go in /opt/lsb/lib and the wrapper scripts for proprietary packages can start with export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lsb/lib (or whatever is appropriate to activate the obolsete lsb libs. that way it never interferes with the rest of the normal and Free system. > sounds like a winner to me. indeed. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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