GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout 01/07/2009]

[Rainer Orth]

Shawn Walker writes:

> > I object to /usr/compilers also.  Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers
> > instead?
> 
> So why was /usr/compilers chosen instead of /usr/gcc, etc. as we have 
> /usr/apache, /usr/apache2, etc. now?

I have no idea: there was no rational for this yet.  /usr/apache* is a bad
example, though, since all other cases like postgres and mysql don't have
different toplevel directories for different major versions.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University