Re: Bug#192869: surfraw: surprized you added so many commands to /usr/bin

[Stephen Stafford <ssta@pol.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:38:36AM -0700, Keegan Quinn wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:38:57AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> > > Ok. Do you think about moving surfraw binary too?
> > 
> > No, I suspect the sufraw binary can stay in /usr/bin, and perhaps have a
> > note in the usage to tell people that they need to add /usr/bin/surfraw to
> > their $PATH to get all these great commands.
> 
> I would just like to point out, that it is very difficult for
> the pathname /usr/bin/surfraw to be both a directory full of scripts
> (or whatever they are) and a binary.  One or the other needs a different
> name.

Umm, <looks embarrased> you are, of course, absolutely right :)

The principle is still sound though.

I suspect that /usr/share/surfraw is the correct place though, since it is
not architecture dependent.  The question now is how to document this and
let users know...

Stephen