Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: path for Java again | Date | Fri, 17 May 1996 09:32:37 +0100 (BST) |
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> Argument not no have java in /usr/bin is that Java is subsistem inside > Linux (or any Unix) and therefore should have its own directories. > /usr/java sounds fine.
Please read the file system standard then come back and have an argument if you don't like it. Java would go I think in
/usr/share/java/.... - Java classes (arch independant) /usr/lib/java/... - arch dependant (read only)
> For example, nobody would like to copy contents of /usr/X11/bin to /usr/bin > just to follow Linux standard. Reason the same - X is a separate subsistem > inside Linux (or any Unix) and has right for its own file structure.
/usr/X11/.. is left the way it is because of history. By right it would be /usr/lib/X11/... /usr/bin/.... etc.
[People with interest in this might want to actually investigate the FSSTND and help with future generations of it - various things like compatiblity issues with SYS5 /opt and good support for multiarchitecture NFS shared file store are still in work]
Alan
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