On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:48:23AM -0600, Guy Fraser said:
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:01 +0300, Peter Nixon wrote:
Our default prefix should probably change from /usr/local to /opt/freeradius/ also in keeping with LSB. (Although I understand that this may be a slightly controversal change)
Why wreck a good thing!
/usr/local is the BSD standard. I have no idea why LSB did not stay with the BSD standards.
It actually did, at least in this instance. The rule of thumb is distros go in /usr/{s,}bin, '3rd part software suites' (think loads of java and marketing speak - oracle, for instance) live under /opt/$package, and /usr/local is for local admin installed software. /usr/local seems to perfectly describe the normal target audience of freeradius, so I would think it's perfect where it is. If a '3rd party' wants to come along and provide a fully integrated, web2.1-ready, blah blah radius solution and charge you lots of money for the priviledge, that should definitely go under /opt. But I don't think that's the goal or the distribution method here. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A friend is a present you give | | steve@lobefin.net | yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------