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

[George Vasick]

Rainer Orth wrote:
> Nicolas Williams writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>> George Vasick writes:
>>>> Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in 
>>>> /usr/compilers/binutils219.  It will be a separate package and not 
>>>> contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432.
>>> Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered yet:
>>>
>>> * Why /usr/compilers at all?  We don't have /usr/webservers or
>>>   /usr/databases.
>> I object to /usr/compilers also.  Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers
>> instead?
> 
> Since this will contain version-specific bin directories which users are
> expected to add to their PATH, it shouldn't go below /usr/lib.  Existing
> precedent would be /usr/gcc/4.3.

Normally, users would not need to add version specific directories to 
their PATH, /usr/bin and /usr/gnu/bin would work just fine in the case 
where only one version of gcc is installed.


George

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> 	Rainer
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> Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University