On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:27:22PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I recommend you to read section 3.8 of FHS. Someone who talks so knowingly of > FHS should take the time to read it, too. I suggest you take basic comprehension classes. > On Thursday 17 January 2002 17:22, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > > > Except that, it seems to be in "violation of FHS" to not support reserved > > > subdirs of /opt intended for local administrator's use, such as /opt/bin > > > and /opt/lib. They should exist on a default install, and binaries in > > > /opt/bin should be in $PATH, etc. > > > > And binaries in /opt/kde3/bin? And /opt/apache/bin? And ... you get the > > point. How large do you want $PATH to be? And before you can say > > "symlink", we can't screw around with /opt/bin, either. And providing > > one wrapper script for every binary is MESSY, and SUCKS imho. How many > > KDE binaries are there? The answer is: $toomany. > > There are reserved directories, under which the distributions do not touch. > /opt/bin is one of them, and it's a directory that the local admin manages. > /opt/bin should be in $PATH I said, and /opt/lib in library search path. I > said nothing about /opt/<package>/bin if you would care to notice. /opt/bin > and /opt/<package>/bin serve different purposes. MY POINT EXACTLY!! /opt/bin could be in $PATH if you want, but who cares? We CANNOT touch it! So what's your solution? Put /opt/kde3/bin in $PATH? Imagine how large $PATH will grow if everyone follows our precedent. KDE is not that much of a special case. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> -Evii- (opnotice/#linux/18@) I hereby vote DanielS as my choice for the new channel manager ;) -Lion-O- [Wall/#linux] /me kills evii -RelDrgn- i vote we shoot evii ;) -Evii- (opnotice/#linux/18@) Hey would be a great way to get rid of the lusers.. and regulars.. and ops.. ;) (editor's note: Evii was drunk at the time)
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