A modest proposal #2: unsupported
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sat Apr 19 16:19:00 GMT 2003
Max Bowsher wrote:
>> 1) install into /usr/local/* or /opt/<package>/* [see RFD #1] -- NEVER
>> EVER touch ANYTHING under /usr/*. This includes cygwin-specific doco:
>> it should go under /usr/local/doc/ /usr/local/doc/Cygwin/ if desired,
>> and NOT /usr/doc/. Ditto --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc and NOT /etc.
>> But cygwin-specific doco is not required for these ports.
>
>
> Not /usr/local ! I use that for non-setup-managed packages.
>
> FHS does reserve it for the local sysadmin:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html
Is there another unified tree that isn't /usr or /usr/local ? It'd
really suck to have to use the /opt/<package>/ heirarchy for EVERY
unsupported package. (And no, FHS doesn't allow using
/opt/[bin|lib|...] directly; everything there must be links to stuff in
/opt/<package>/... )
/unsupported/[bin|lib|...] is okay, I suppose. But its non-FHS, and Yet
Another Top Level Directory.
--Chuck
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