Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:49:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shared /bin and /sbin Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000417103135.8777A-100000@roble2.roble.com>
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote: >I much prefer the FreeBSD way of doing things. There should be only one >lib -- /usr/lib, and things critical to booting should be compiled static. Agreed, multiple dynamic OS library paths would also violate the KIS principle. >Obviously people with special needs can compile the binaries up however >they like, but I don't think we should change the base distribution's >way of doing things. Applications should have separate directories i.e., /usr/local/apache/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib, to keep from overwriting each other (as in /usr/local/lib) but, IMHO, nobody's yet made a compelling argument for multiple OS library paths. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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