Re: Major GNU/Hurd using report
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 10:52:35AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2000 02:45:50 Colin Watson wrote:
> > And, as a side note, I understand that the reason this is there by
> > default is that the hurd-i386 architecture is using the same source for
> > the base-files packages as other architectures,
>
> but it is architecture: any, so we can get special hurd changes in.
>
> We have two possible sceanrios: Support /usr being a real directory by
> default,
> or doing it not.
>
> Scenario: Support for a real /usr:
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin: (etc etc)
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/X11R6/lib
>
> Scenario: No support for a real /usr:
> PATH=/bin: (etc etc)
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/X11R6/lib
>
> Note that currently we don't set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at all, but we should.
> This
> is something we need to change anyway, so I will file a bug report. But
> which
> of the two scenarios do we want?
My vote for second scenario
/usr exists only due to histerical reasons
> (BTW, it would be a nice idea to try to get X into / instead /X11R6.
> Then we could
> have:
>
> PATH=/bin:/local/bin
>
> (and no LD_LIBRARY_PATH)).
Actually it is possible to have X in /
This is my Linux box configuration (but with symlink /X11R6->/ )
And if we move it before we have full X working
there won't be any problems with backward compatibility
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