Date: 02 Oct 2002 11:28:39 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> Cc: chat@freebsd.org, esperti@gufi.org Subject: Re: RAV and paths & hier Message-ID: <acofacvgo8.fac@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021002093611.0210ceb0@194.184.65.4> References: <5.1.1.6.2.20021002093611.0210ceb0@194.184.65.4>
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Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> writes: > Hi, I have installed the last RAV antivirus for FreeBSD. > The old version rightly install in the /usr/local/rav8 . The new one > pretend to install in /opt/rav /etc/rav and so on ... ... > >>Please fix it asap please ... ... > Is a right thing to insist on old layout or it can be accepted the new > (ugly) one ? I'd think that would depend on how they marketed the product. If they never say they're publishing it for use on FreeBSD, then I think one should be very polite in ASKING, please, would they make it work better on FreeBSD and maybe explain why it's to their advantage to do so. If they're trying to "sell" it for FreeBSD, then they deserve some haranguing if their product has important bugs (like yours) on FreeBSD. P.S. (extracted quote) > > The new locations for RAV were made conforming to the new FHS 2.2 > > (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) There should be a standard for application packaging that wraps a layer around directory layout standards so each OS can ask for stuff to be installed differently. But layout seems sufficiently unimportant to me that I'd have no trouble seeing all OSes jump on the FHS bandwagon (more than they already have), even if it is messier than the FreeBSD layout. IIRC, several Unixes are already in the process of doing so. It's packaging that's important and I don't see that situation improving in any way worth worrying about until someone works it in into the security infrastructure so you don't have to trust application/installer writers so much (and many other reasons). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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