Subject: Re: netscape (binary package)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@ox.mines.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/12/1999 06:59:01
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:20:55PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:06:22 -0500 (EST)
> Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > So, to rehash and make one concede, the following could be done:
> >
> > $PREFIX/lib/netscape everything but NLS, XKeysymDB, and netscape binaries
> > (this is $MOZILLA_HOME)
> >
> > $PREFIX/libexec where the netscape binaries go
> >
> > $PREFIX/share/netscape where the shareable stuff goes
>
> Sigh, whatever. Put it all in $PREFIX/lib/netscape. Don't break up the
> package into multiple directories.
No, please don't; that pollutes lib even more than it already is, contrary
to hier(7).
Why not accommodate large monolithic packages like this with a new
subdirectory, such as $PREFIX/packages? It would *not* be intended for
everything, just for things that are typically distributed in binary
form by third parties and don't easily break up into the existing categories.