[svlug] What Linux distro is this??

[Jan-Albert Venter]

I aggree in fact. There were other factors, involved, the orriginall version
always used /usr/bin but I later decided that those who have /usr/local/bin
in their paths would clearly prefer that I put it there. So I modified the
system to allow for that. I only thought the information might be helpfull.

-----Original Message-----
From: dfox at belvdere.vip.best.com [mailto:dfox at belvdere.vip.best.com]
Sent: 27 July 2000 03:44
To: Jan-Albert Venter
Cc: svlug at svlug.org
Subject: Re: Re: [svlug] What Linux distro is this??


> /usr/bin for redhat likes, and /usr/local/bin for debian-likes. All I did
> was to check whether $PATH includes /usr/local/bin if a redhat user added

Distribution shouldn't be a basis on whether to install something in
/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Firstly, the idea is that distribution-
supplied things should go under /usr, whilst user-supplied things
should go under /usr/local. Secondly, this might not totally apply
in Debian's case, since the 'distribution' can be so different from
one system to another. For instance, you can't really install 'everything'
in debian, and people can start from a small 'distribution' of it, and
then pile on all the packages they want. In that case, are the packages
part of the distribution or not? Or, they can go with a reasonably
complete install a la red hat by installing something like 'slink &
one-half'. Do you make the determination on where to install based on
whether it's 'part' of debian (i.e., stuff in official status) or
based on whether or not you installed it with the rest of it (for
various values of it, of course).

Methinks you just opened up another can of worms. :)