Re: Installation-issues

[Nicholas Lee <N.J.Lee@statslab.cam.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
> >So /usr/lib/zombie might be a possibility.
>
> Yep, definitely something to consider. Qt uses /usr/lib/qt. I'll then get:
>
> /usr/lib/zombie           - main directory
> /usr/lib/zombie/bin       - binaries (server)
> /usr/lib/zombie/lib       - shared and static libs
> /usr/lib/zombie/include   - all include-files
> /usr/lib/zombie/etc       - configuration-files for server
> /usr/lib/zombie/man       - brutally simple manpages
> /usr/lib/zombie/samples   - some samples
> /usr/lib/zombie/doc       - all Doxygen-docs as well as extensive docs
>                             crafted by me outlining functionality and how
>                             to use Zombie.

Actually I don't think the point was in to install the whole package under
/usr/lib/<package>/, just the package specific lib files and
script/modules files.

Documentation, mans, binaries, include, and etc configuration information
should be somewhere else.

So there still is the problem of where to place this stuff.

Personally I still favour /usr/local/ (or /opt),  since I usually think
that all non-system specific applications should be keep out of /usr.


> Alternatively the binaries could be put into /usr/bin as symlinks, which
> would make it easier to start the daemon.

symlinks from some other directory in /usr/<whatever>/bin is still
important to consider.  I would think that it would have little affect on
security or preformance.


> Yep, a good point. But Zombie is not exclusively for gaming, as it can be
> used for instance to irc-like things, ftp, mpi/pvm-like stuff etc.


Actually reading a little bit more, the FHS also include provision for
/usr/games.


Any thought on how to extend this idea?


Nicholas

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