On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:54:48AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
1. install libraries (and binaries? see 3.) in /usr/lib(64)
> Large software packages must not use a direct subdirectory under
> the /usr hierarchy.
2. provide prefixed :
— binaries or
— symlinks to binaries in /usr/lib(64)/foo (see 3.)
What about putting the binaries into /usr/bin/plan9/, instead of prefixing
each one individually? The FHS 2.3 specifies that mh binaries should go into
/usr/bin/mh, so there's precedent for subdirs there. (Not that our nmh
package follows that rule....)
Since we also already ship the environment-modules package, an env-module
for plan 9 could be included; users who want the plan 9 binaries could
either set their path manually or run "module load plan9".
This seems preferable to the "alternatives" system, since it's per-user
rather than systemwide.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences