On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:06 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
There was a certain beauty and elegance to the /opt/<package>/(bin|lib) system of yore. Too bad it was abandoned rather than integrated/improved.
Come to think of it, if I were going to do things all over again, I'd probably allow for both system-wide installs into /usr as well as per-package installs in /opt/<package>/(bin|lib|perl5|python2.5| java-classpath|mono-libs).
Off-topic: is there a way to change a process's environment variables from a different process (but with the same UID or UID=root)? --
Richi Plana