On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:46:51AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Jack Howarth wrote:
> []
>> What I am considering is to add a gcc4X-bin
>> split-off to all of the gcc4X packages which
>> will contain all of the %/bin symlinks currently
>> provided by the main gcc4X package.
>
> Why do we neeed *any* of these executables directly in %p/bin?
> They could as well live in some subdirectory of %p/lib, and if you want
> to use them, you modify PATH correspondingly.
Ease of use? Users already have to adapt to the using
a different compiler name in some cases and now they
have to invoke a new path as well? I would also point
out that MacPorts allows all of their gcc4x packages
to co-exist in /opt/local/bin but access them as via
mp-4.X- prefixed names.
Jack
ps How exactly are you suggesting that I modify the
PATH for users automatically? I have tried to avoid
adding things to PATH because if every package in
fink does that we will soon have PATHs that are
insanely long.
>
> --
> Martin
>
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