I realize there's not a vote going on, it was just an expression. Serious reasons to abandon /sw? Well, there is the factor of /sw not being a standard directory in any distribution of *nix I've ever encountered, which is an initial hurdle to someone who is new to the platform ("mrtg is in /sw/bin? Who'd have thunk it"). Also, like I mentioned in my email, if you have someone who is not very Unix savvy using the machine (either the person installing Fink or say Grandma), they might delete the sw folder accidentally because it's visible by default.Just to clarify this, there is nothing to vote on here. There are no serious reasons to abandon /sw, but many good reasons not to do it - one of them being backward compatibility, we don't want to force 99% of fink users to redo their complete fink installation.My vote is for /opt/fink.
So what about a gradual transition? Have the selfupdate-cvs start using /opt/fink and do a symlink temporarily until the majority of the userbase is using /opt/fink. Recompile the binary installation so new users will be using /opt/fink. I realize that the /opt folder gets used by some thing (for example, Apache2 on MOSX Server), but I'm sure even Apple would adhere to leaving the /opt folder alone.
Also, Fink is *not* just using /sw/fink. We are using /sw. That's a difference.Ya, realized I mistyped that just after I sent it. So, s/\/sw\/fink/\/sw/. No biggie, the rest holds true :)
Max
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