Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/27/11:55:49
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:11:02AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:18:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >I don't follow this argumentation. Regardless how the package is
> >queezed into an order in the download directory hirarchy it should
> >always be installed in the prefix=/usr part of the users machine.
> >
> >The /usr/local is what the name suggests: It's what the user has
> >additionally locally installed. The /usr part is what is part of
> >the distro. And the contrib packages _are_ part of the distro.
>
> They are contributed, unsupported parts of the distribution. I
> think that the local directory layout should reflect that.
>
> Why do we even have a "contrib" directory, then? It is completely
> transparent to the user. The only thing we can say is "Oh yeah, well
> it's not supported! Check it out for yourself by using your ftp client
> to go to ftp.sources.redhat.com and you'll see! So there!"
>
The FHS would have these installed in a /opt/package-version directory
with symlinks in /usr/local/bin and etc.. I would suggest that we could
go with this for the contrib directory. However, my preference for this
is /opt/package/version where version is a subdirectory of package, it's
more esthetically appealing to my eyes.
Earnie.
Earnie.
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