From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Software/HD ecology Date: 16 Dec 2002 17:09:57 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <071220021155280606%ajanta@no.spam> <5ld6obj8il.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <091220021652087216%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021101520860%ajanta@no.spam> <111220021253524057%ajanta@no.spam> <5l65u0i8zj.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <111220022053507599%ajanta@no.spam> <87u1hjdwta.fsf@hurd.crasseux.com> <84fzt3hvk8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <121220021405534518%anil@null.invalid> <84n0nathms.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040061278 27484 80.91.224.249 (16 Dec 2002 17:54:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:54:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NzRt-000799-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:54:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NzJH-0000EB-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:45:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: camaro.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:349041 gnu.emacs.help:108177 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4709 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4709 >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: Kai> We started in an environment where /usr/local was a directory Kai> which was managed by somebody else (the departmental Kai> computing center, on our SunOS 4.x workstations). We used Kai> /usr/local/ls6 at that time, but felt the directory name was Kai> too long. Later on, the departmental computing center Kai> changed to /app/unido-inf/sun4_56 (Solaris 2.6, no surprise), Kai> and so we used /app/unido-i06/sun4_56 which wasn't really any Kai> shorter either. If you're on the command line: $ x=/app/unido-i06/sun4_56 and after that, you can: $ ls $x $ find $x -perm +0111 etc. Kai> Then, when we moved to GNU/Linux, we instinctively stayed Kai> away from all these directories I think and looked for Kai> something else. I had seen /usr/sww (software warehouse) in Kai> some document on the internet and I liked that, so maybe Kai> that's why /usr/sw came about. Users should not need to use these pathnames so much. Use aliases or shell scripts. Kai> Why didn't we use /sw instead? The reason is really silly: Kai> back on SunOS and Solaris, we used to mount /usr via NFS, so Kai> putting mount points under /usr was easier because we only Kai> had to create the directory on the NFS server. But now with Kai> GNU/Linux, we don't distribute /usr via NFS... Why not? NFS-shared volumes are easier to manage if you have a large network. This is esp. true with softwares that you install from source or tarballs, not package files. -- Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee