James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling writes:
> > Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That's an argument for closing off /usr/bin. Everything should go into
> > > a /usr/pkg/*/bin or /opt/*/bin or whatever, and every user is
> > > responsible for maintaining a very long PATH or a lynk farm.
> >
> > IIRC, software not under BSDL has a hard way going into /usr/bin/
>
> I don't think I understand why that should be. We already have
> non-BSD things in /usr/bin.
Sorry, It seems that I forgot to mention that I was talking about /usr/bin
on BSD.
> I disagree strongly with that assertion. /usr/bin isn't the exclusive
> home of ON-delivered objects. Nor is the ON consolidation the right
> place to stuff everything that wants (or needs) to be in /usr/bin.
> Nor, even, is PSARC the keeper of ON.
I believe that e.g. GNOME does not belong into /usr/bin
J?rg
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