On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:01:14AM +0200, Valts Mazurs said:
See comments below:
In case no one else decides to chime in here with sanity and reason... /usr/local is the "right" place for default installation - not only because it's the right place (and it definitely is), but because that is where it's been thus far and people have gotten used to it. If some third party decides to repackage freeradius to confirm to their own fly-by-night naming convension, they should be the ones responsible for apologizing to their userbase and fixing the bugs that arise as a result of the transition. Developer time is never well spent on fixing bugs associated with such useless operations as renaming config files or moving paths. Plus, there are plenty of Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD boxes out there that very happily run freeradius out of /usr/local, why force some stupid linux convention on them?
I totally agree with you. Since freeradius is not meant to run only on Linux, sticking to weird linux-only standard would be stupid idea.
Well, the FHS is not Linux specific. Much of the add on software for the Solaris boxes I admin already puts itself under /opt. That being said, /usr/local is probably the right place for freeradius to default to, IMHO. /opt is for third party applications that are already bundled and ready to install (an acroread self-extracting installer or something, e.g.). /usr/local has always been the place for the admin to put their own locally compiled software, so it should probably stay as the default install path. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Now I lay me down to sleep I hear the | | steve@lobefin.net | sirens in the street All my dreams are | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | made of chrome I have no way to get | | | back home - Tom Waits | --------------------------------------------------------------------------