Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 05:20:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fwd: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Message-ID: <200207051220.g65CK7vm007976@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/40222; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru> To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Fwd: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:57:40 +0400 I believe the submitter meant this description. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: bin/40222: [directory hierarchy] /usr/contrib Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 12:54:16 +0200 From: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> To: "Alexey V. Neyman" <alex.neyman@auriga.ru> > Have you noticed the /usr/local directory in the default > installation? It serves almost the same purpose that you described. Yes, I am aware of /usr/local (BSD operating systems) and /opt (SVR4.x operating systems) too. The problem I am trying to avoid is another one: About two years ago, Sun Microsystems released Solaris 8. That OS release provided a lot of Gnu stuff (and other optional software too...) in /usr/bin. Some of the new add-ons are broken (for example, bzip2 has a race condition that sometimes deletes not only the output of that command but also the file that is being compressed.) Perl, and Tcl/Tk, does not works for all users (it does not work when building the MICE related video-conferencing software.) ...and there is the well known zlib problem too. The problem is that users cannot change that software without breaking the operating system (there are a lot of new administrative scripts that depends on those versions and that are hard-coded to /usr/bin/*). Changing that software makes the system behaviour unpredictable for service staff. Adding that software to /usr/contrib/[s]bin will allow a user to add a new release of that software without changing the operating system behaviour. IMHO, it is a good improvement. And there is some people in the Sun's technical staff that agrees with me. Igor. -- Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org ------------------------------------------------------- -- ,----------------------------------, | L'enfer ou tu iras, j'irai aussi | Alexey V. Neyman | Et ce sera mon paradis... | mailto:alex.neyman@auriga.ru `--------------------( Frollo )----' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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