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Re: fpTeX and Cygwin
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> The FHS would have these installed in a /opt/package-version directory
> with symlinks in /usr/local/bin and etc.. I would suggest that we could
> go with this for the contrib directory. However, my preference for this
> is /opt/package/version where version is a subdirectory of package, it's
> more esthetically appealing to my eyes.
Arrghh. This is pedantic, IMO. Let me ask this question: Debian has a
large number of packages, all supported by different maintainers. Does
apt-get install *all* of these packages into some inane heirarchy under
/opt/ and then build symlink farms from /usr/local/? If some packages
go into /usr, which? How is that decision made? Who are the
"annointed" Debian developers whose packages go into /usr?
I admit some self-interest in my disagreement with this /opt/package
thing. I am not really interested in rebuilding, repackaging,
retesting, re-releasing-for-test, re-wait-for-comments,
re-announce-as-updated, and
RE-get-bug-reports-that-should-have-come-three-steps-earlier, for "my"
dozen-or-so packages for NO real gain. Nothing is broken, except a
desire to conform to a standard developed for needs other than those of
cygwin. No thanks.
--Chuck
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