Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:18:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin Message-ID: <20010227001835.A8605@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010226175349.R27406@cygbert.vinschen.de> <000f01c0a067$0c9ceb60$3bc1c13f@holstein-mobile.ASPECTDV.COM> <20010226225233.A8069@redhat.com> <3A9B3572.8CB71CB5@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A9B3572.8CB71CB5@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:04:50AM -0500 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple