[RFC] Change to subversion package: Move /usr/bin/* -> /usr/bin/subversion/* and add symlinks in /usr/bin

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Jul 6 21:09:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >>I propose to relocate all the above into a directory
> >>/usr/bin/subversion, and add symlinks to the executables in /usr/bin .
> >
> >Why not use /usr/share/subversion, or even /opt/subversion, for the
> >DLLs?  You can then compile the subversion executables to look for DLLs
> >in the above directory.  I don't see a need to move the executables
> >themselves.
>
> Architecture specific binaries should not be in /usr/share.
>
> cgf

Yes, I was planning to reply to Chuck's message (which basically said the
same thing).  You're both right, the above should have said
/usr/lib/subversion, not /usr/share/subversion.
	Igor
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