GNU: default prefix is /usr/local, the stuff gets into /usr/local/(s)bin,
/usr/local/etc, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/libexec and sometimes
/usr/local/var.
this common for additions to non-linux OSes, e.g. solaris or freeBSD.
linux: most is GNU anyway, therefore the distributions put their stuff
into the system directories, i.e. /usr/(s)bin, /etc, /usr/share, /usr/lib
and /var.
how much do linux distributions differ in their fs layouts nowadays?
i looked at a few some years ago, and i chose debian because it looked
most familiar and reasonable to me. YMMV.
some packages, apache httpd for example, default to differ from this layout
and put all their stuff into a directory of their own, e.g.
/usr/local/apache/{bin,conf,logs,...}
since openca is not command line based, we haven't got much to put into
../bin/ (one users got in their $PATH), so perhaps openca is similar
to apache?
so what are the fs layouts we want openca to fit in?
the current ./configure defaults are not standard, at least not the
/home/httpd/, where does that come from?
i would like to see openca configurable with very few options, perhaps
even none concerning paths, while on the other hand offer the
opportunity to fine tune it to strange systems.
rj
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