On Monday 01 November 2004 00:31, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday, 31 October 2004 23.21, Donn Washburn wrote:
Question I have is why SuSE 9.2 put Open Office in /usr/lib?
It's in /usr/lib ? Even the executables? That's not nice at all. I took deep exception to their placing the firefox executable in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib too, I don't know where this trend of placing executables in /lib comes from. I don't like it one bit
/usr/lib : Libraries for programming and packages Purpose /usr/lib includes object files, libraries, and internal binaries that are not intended to be executed directly by users or shell scripts. [22] Applications may use a single subdirectory under /usr/lib. If an application uses a subdirectory, all architecture-dependent data exclusively used by the application must be placed within that subdirectory. [23] Putting OOo in /usr/lib makes some sense, because you don't call soffice directly, but with a wrapper. Actually, lots of wrappers. There is stuff for OOo is in /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin I don't think it's a bad thing, it's just better integrated. I never saw SUSE do something more complex for gratuitous reasons. If they do it, there's a good purpose, even if I don't know much about it yet. But I can always find out what the purpose is, if I need.