Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:02:59AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> My reluctance to do that is because the standard place to look for DLLs and >> programs on Cygwin is /usr/bin. I don't understand why, because they need to >> be in a subdirectory, they should transfer to the less obvious /usr/lib >> tree. > > The FHS dictates no subdirectories in /usr/bin and I think it's a good > rule. Program specific subdirectories belong in /usr/lib.
... > Why didn't rpm just put its binaries in /usr/bin/rpm? Why didn't qt put > them in /usr/bin/qt? Regardless of the reason, they put their packages > in /usr/lib. So should you. OK, I'll use /usr/lib. Though the FHS actually permits subdirs of /usr/bin, even defining the meaning of one subdir, /usr/bin/mh http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRBINMOSTUSERCOMMANDS Max.