Alex wrote:
> Back in the day when GNOME 2.0 from Sun shipped on a beta CD, I recall that
> executables and libraries were installed in /usr/gnome. This was consistent
> with /usr/dt and other, more archaic windowing systems such as /usr/openwin.
> Though when GNOME was released and later bundled with Solaris it became based
> directly under /usr.
>
> Sun seems to be particular about other directories which to some extent are
> depended upon by GNOME, such as /usr/sfw. It was more convenient to have a
> /usr/gnome than the all-inclusive /usr install where it is now difficult to
> determine whether an application is CLI or GUI without running it.
>
> Obviously this will never change, but I am curious what the rationale was to
> locate GNOME/JDS directly under /usr.
Compatibility with the then under-developement JDS/Linux, in
which GNOME tools would be under /usr/bin in compliance with
the Linux Standard Base Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which
says that splitting up /usr into subdirectories as we've done
on Solaris is verboten on LSB-compliant systems.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
