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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:08:55 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
CC: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>,
   Ralf Habacker <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>,
   "APPS LIST, NOT Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [REQ] apache-1.3.22 package available
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"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> 
> Now I remember asking to use a new directory for this kind of packages
> (mysql, apache, ...) which could be /opt .
> Then we have /opt/apache, /opt/mysql and so on.
> 

I think this a wise idea for this type of package.  However, postscripts
would need to be written to add the /opt/foo/bin path to the PATH
variable in the /etc/profile file.  Do we really want to go into that
hassle?  Would it be more confusing to the non-UNIX types?  Would it
raise more questions on the users list?  Although this is a wise idea it
might not be so wise to implement.

Earnie.

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