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In article <9203190346.AA00298@wubios>, david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
> In Reply to this Note From: <Kevin Johnson>
> >
> >>>>>> On 16 Mar 92 12:01:01 GMT, mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (mhiroshi) said:
> >
> >> 1) The base path should be "/usr/gnu" like "/usr/ucb"
> >>    rather than "/usr/local" since GNU's software is not
> >>    just PDS but is Free Software that has different copyright(copyleft)
> >>    policy than the others.
> >
> >'local' != 'pds'
> 
> The base path should be /usr {/bin /include /lib}.  The FSF as
> distributor of the entire operating system should place the bundled
> code in the place normally used by vendors.  The /usr/local path is
> for things added from independent sources.

Yes, exactly. On our Sun, HP, PCS, DEC, and IBM workstations GNU
software **is** a ``thing added from [an] independent source.''

Personally, I share the opinion of kjj (Kevin Johnson): Any package
that does not allow to retarget it somewhere else easily, is
brain-damaged. (Wouldn't say fascist, here in Germany we're a bit
cautious with this word...)

--
Joachim

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Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany