[Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Hofmann [mailto:whofmann at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 2:44 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] SGML tools on Solaris7 or non-GNUified Solaris
> 
> 
> > I guess we differ in opinions of where things should go in
> > the filesystem.
> > >From reading the FSSTND and FHS, I think that they have
> > things pretty well
> > layed out, and I like the way that RedHat has implemented
> > this.  /usr is for
> > all the programs that came with your OS, so that they get
> > upgraded when you
> > upgrade the OS, or when you apply "patches" or RPMs.  The /usr/local
> > filesystem is for products that either don't come packaged
> > (with or without
> > the OS), and for "unstable" software.  I think this layout
> 
> I agree with you here completely.  My only beef was with 
> GNOME.  I think it
> should be in /usr/local because it *is* so unstable. :)

Not to pick nits, but you can easily put it in /usr/local, either with the
RPMs or by compiling from source.  :)
	Greg