From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:05:07 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Topicbox-Message-UUID: f23c0f48-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> i vote for putting the binaries in /$objtype/bin or /$objtype/bin/tex. >> in the latter case, it would be tex/tex or tex/mf. > > Ideal most of the time, but I have this gut feeling that one ought to > keep utilities distinct if they are not part of the distribution. At > minimum they make it easier when rebuilding the system to remember > what one has added. It's easy enough to bind /386/pub to /bin, but it > would be nice if there was a firm convention; /386/bin is pretty firm. Bind your own directory on /bin with the creation flag set? I don't see why the package system or package author should choose where to put the files if they can let the user choose for themselves. > ++L Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com