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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:58:18 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?Andrey_Chernov=2C_=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Cc:        faulkner@asgard.hos.net, stesin@gu.net, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: news/lib - lib/news ???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961205025426.1538A-100000@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199612042242.WAA07173@veda.is>

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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Adam David wrote:

> > > > /usr/local/news is the top of inn, not /usr/local/news/lib.  If you move
> > > > it to /usr/local/lib/news, there needs to be a /usr/local/lib/news/lib
> > > > when inn is installed.
> > > > 
> > > > The issue is really /usr/local/news vs. /usr/local/lib/news
> > > 
> > > /usr/local/*/news vs. /usr/local/news/*
> > 
> > No, /usr/local/news/{bin,lib,...} vs. 
> > /usr/local/lib/news
> > /usr/local/{bin,sbin,libexec}
> > /usr/local/etc
> > 
> > news subdirectory is only in one place: lib
> 
> Surely this stuff belongs in a subdirectory of libexec instead populating the
> top level? Some of it might be leftover from an obsolete version, but all
> these files are from the cnews and nntp ports:
> 
> $ ls -lR /usr/local/libexec/news
> total 492
> drwxr-xr-x  2 bin   bin    512 Sep 29  1994 batch/
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bin   bin  30414 May 10  1996 canonhdr*
> -rw-r--r--  1 bin   bin    858 May 25  1995 canonsys.awk

I thik most of this stuff belongs to /usr/local/lib/news
(in agreement with tradition)
news/bin maps directly to bin and few daemons goes to sbin...
I think we ever don't need libexec or etc in that scheme...

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/




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