Re: System Admin. & Re: Adobe Systems Incorporated -- and a Question

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From: Erik C. Sowa
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 20:31

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In article <1992Apr9.165330.3692@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca>, jchin@wcraft.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
> here are some of the commonly recommended locations for  
> third party stuff:
> /Apps		Third party NeXT apps owned and used by you only
> /Library	Third party files used by you only
> /Library/Fonts	Third party fonts used by you only

Make that ~/Apps, ~/Library, etc. etc. for "personal" software, where ~
refers to the user's home directory. I'm sure that's what Joe meant to
write. Joe is right; don't muck with the /Next... directories.

While I'm at it, why not point out an official NeXT inconsistency with
this scheme? Why does Installer put third-party package files into
/NextLibrary/Packages instead of, say, /LocalLibrary/Packages? OK, the
relevant directory must be world-writeable, but if they shipped with the
/Local... directories already made, this would be no more of a problem
than the current situation. Yeah, it's a small thing, I know. I would
also prefer that /NextLibrary/TeX go in the local hierarchy, too, since
TeX is shipped uninstalled.

--
erik sowa (sowa@amdew.llnl.gov)

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