On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:22:29AM -0800, Douglas Walls wrote: >> Why /usr/compilers, then, rather than something under /usr/lib/<mumble>? > > If ARC members recommend we install the bundled compilers in > /usr/lib/<mumble> > that is fine by us, it's just a name and a path. We chose /usr/compilers > as it was not clear to us that we want another WOS in /usr/lib.
I'm not sure that there's any real definition, but /usr/<mumble> seems to be used for components which have Public interfaces beneath that directory -- their own bin, man, lib, and so forth, which you'd actually put into your $PATH, $MANPATH, -L, etc. If there are no user-serviceable parts there, though (or all of the ones you'd want to use are linked into the standard places) then /usr/lib/<mumble> seems like the place to go. But others may have a different understanding. Danek
