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In article <1992Apr10.070836.28851@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
marcu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Albert Ullman) writes:
> In article <122094@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov writes:
> >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.
> 
> I agree with your position here.  In fact, I replace 
> 	/NextLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty
> with a symbolic link pointing to
> 	/LocalLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty
> 
> One other comment on disk management schemes.  Since I have large (1.4GB)
> disk, and I wanted to keep the NeXT supplied stuff in its own partition,
> I have created a second partition on my disk that I mount as /local.
> (I also have a partition called /home with all user accounts but that's
> a different matter).  As to /local, I add the following symbolic links
> on top of the NeXT OS partition so that these are the only things that
> have to be updated if I wipe out or update the OS system:
> 
> 	/usr/local		--> /local
> 	/LocalApps		--> /local/Apps
> 	/LocalLibrary		--> /local/Library
> and of course
> 	/NextLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty --> /LocalLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty

Gee, I do the same thing.  And I thought I was original... :-)

Todd
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