From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 19 16:37:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11048 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11043 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:37:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4035.ime.net [209.90.195.45]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id TAA25612; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:35:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981219192638.009f1ed0@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:30:39 -0500 To: Brett Glass , Mike Smith From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Cc: Mike Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Jackson , "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981219171741.06dad040@mail.lariat.org> References: <199812192325.PAA01197@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:19 PM 12/19/98 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >At 03:25 PM 12/19/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >>I'm looking at their port's Makefile at the moment; it's a bit fragile >>in that it assumes that the user reads their instructions and installs >>it into /usr/local/corel. > >Gee, that's a bit egotistical -- putting themselves right under >/usr/local instead of in, say, /usr/local/etc/corel (which would >follow the convention used by apache and others). > >--Brett Take a look, Hughes's MSQL does it too.. if I recall MYSQL does too.. my MSQL is in /usr/local/Hughes, which is the default. I find it convenient, but also a pain in the ass to have to add to my path. Additional programs should go in /usr/local/bin, if it's a multi-file/tree deal it should be like Apache does and throw itself into like /usr/local/etc/... What we need is some sort of insightful RFC on where vended software can go.. A whole protocol on installation dirs... I gotta say, at least FreeBSD (and many other forms of UNIX) has an easy tree. Solaris has like /opt and /usr/ucb and all these inane little crannies where software is installed. Many of them aren't even in the default path. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message