> Quoting Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] OFED 1.2 Feb-26 meeting summary > > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:06 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > > I think that Doug is trying to say that our default location should > > be /usr (not /usr/local/ofed). That would seem to solve several issues: > > > > - will automatically generate conflicts with the RHEL OFED RPMs > > - less muckery with finding libraries and header files > > - can claim to be FHS complaint > > - user *can* change the default location to elsewhere if they want to > > > > If it's a simple issue to change our default, > > If it's *not* a simple issue to change the default (and in truth, it > does take some forethought and planning to get it right), then the much > more important question is why would you expect the user to do that work > themselves?
Good point :). > > is the only reason > > *not* to do it the historical precedent of prior community OFED > > versions? If so, that argument is somewhat diluted because a) we (as > > a community) are encouraging users to upgrade, and b) RH started is > > already shipping OFED RPMs that live in /usr. > > c) like every other initially /usr/local package, there comes a time to > grow up. If historical precedent meant anything, I'm sure X would still > be in /usr/local. Sounds OK. Does EWG vote on this, or something? -- MST _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
