Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/27/00:20:03
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:04:50AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I think that this will still be a "contrib" package and, as such, it
>>should still live in /usr/local.
>
>Whoah! None of my packages in contrib install into /usr/local. The
>original motivation behind the "contrib" directory was not "stuff for
>/usr/local." We first created "contrib" and moved zlib and libpng into
>it from "latest" because. Wait. Why did we do that again?
Hmm. I thought that this was always the understanding. Corinna's ssh
stuff went in /usr/local until it was put into latest but... hmm... it
never existed in contrib or latest. It was in an external site.
I guess I'd like some clear distinction on a user's disk for what is
"contributed" (and therfore optional) and what is not. The user has
no easy way of knowing that something comes from a contrib directory
so the only vague hint he'll get will be directory structure.
However, I just checked and it appears that what I thought was an
implicit rule isn't being used by anything in "contrib". That's
my fault for not being more clear.
Either that or for not having a more clear memory on what was decided...
So, forget I said anything. History says that everything lives in
/usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.
cgf
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