Re: gnustep-make and NSPathUtilities patch

[Sheldon Gill]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:43, Pete French wrote:
> > * Two tools are installed in '/usr/bin' so they're on everyones path:
> > gsmake, gspath
>
> Please no - this is the wrong place for them. They should go in
> /usr/local/bin for all the normal reasons. You cant just go shoving stuff
> into /usr/bin because its more likely to be in the path than the correct
> place. If you really  *must* have something in there then make it symbolic
> links to the correct place.

This is basically an inter *nix variant flame war. Depending on which camp you 
subscribe to your answer will probably be one of:

/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/bin

and I'm not advocating one over the other.

My point was that these are supposed to be *nix commands like any other and so 
should be treated as such, rather than put them in 
SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/(libcombo)/

'/usr/local/bin' is a good default case which platform packages can change to 
suit their variant.


Regards,
Sheldon