In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:

>> >     bin       <-- openssl program
>> >     etc       <-- openssl.cnf, certificates, private keys
>> >     include   <-- header files
>> >     lib       <-- library files
>> 
>> This is a small top-level layout which then fits into all dedicated
>> hierarchies and 99% of all shared hierarchies. I'm sure package maintainers
>> and other filesystem fanatics like this. At least (independed whether it's
>> good or bad) it's the way hundrets of existing packages already install
>> theirself ;-)

> Yes, this is much better.  How about (possibly) temporarily generated 
> files?  Should there be a standard location that OpenSSL enforces the 
> apps that use it to put tmp files?  By temporary, I mean anything that
> could last a few minutes to a few weeks.

Do we have OpenSSL distributed apps who generate temp files
which stay for such a long time? Or do you mean third-party
apps which are installed to the same $prefix as OpenSSL?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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