Re: [OT] Re: The naming wars continue...

From: Tonnerre
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 11:47:30 EST


Salut,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:11:43PM +0200, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> Yes, Linux (or UNIX) directory structure should be changed years ago but
> nobody (except GOBO Linux I think) is going to do it. That will require
> patching realy big amount of code and changing some standards. If somebody
> has time for it feel free to contact me, and I will tell him (or her) what
> should be changed to produce The New Directory Standard That Breaks
> Everything But Is The Best And Most Sane In The World (TM)... :-)

This is not the case, thanks to autoconf and pkg-config. On one of my
systems, I have all the binaries under /Library/..., and all the libs
under /Frameworks/..., and the doc goes under
/Library/Documentation/someplace...

It's not a problem any more, thanks to the ongoing modularization.

Tonnerre

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