Re: placing supplementary binaries
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:05:16AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:18:09AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote:
> > >
> > > Should I therefore keep these supplementary utilities in the viewmol
> > > directory, or should they instead be moved to /usr/bin?
> >
> > if they're binaries that are typically wrapped or otherwise not
> > typically invoked directly by the user, /usr/lib is probably fine
> > otherwise they should probably be in /usr/bin.
> >
>
> Hmm, that's a hard one to judge. I guess they *could* be used
> independently, but they just transform coordinates to viewmol's own internal
> system, which would arguably be a bit useless for general use. But maybe
> someone could find a use for it.
well.. for i in *; do * $i;done
the point is if its typical/normal/expected use
do these programs _usually_ get invoked by something else?
or is it reasonable for a user to run them himself.
given that upstream has decided to put them in /usr/lib, its
probably reasonable that you follow suit.
--
Brian Russo <brusso@phys.hawaii.edu>
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