Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using ubuntu, apt installs packages under /usr. When I find something > that either isn't up to date enough or doesn't exist in the ubuntu > repos, I build it from source. In that case, I either install to /opt > or to /usr/local. Sometimes this includes packages which want to > install guile modules (currently, it includes guile!). I try to keep > /usr untouched except by apt, but it does make sense to have these > modules in a `site' directory. > > For instance, I have guile-lib installed from the ubuntu package to > /usr/share/guile/site, and I have guile-gdbm installed to > /usr/local/share/guile/site. I think this constitutes a pragmatic > (although perhaps not good?) reason to have two site dirs.
Sure, this makes sense - the problem is that people use the word site for different things. Long ago, on a 4.2 system, we had /usr/site and /usr/local. /usr/site was for the group of 15 machines (a lot of money back then!), all synced from one. /usr/local was really for the machine. Note that /usr/local isn't necessarily a good choice because on FreeBSD the packaging system puts things there. (I'm not saying it's a problem in your case.) In the present case, you're using prefix to separate package-managed and local software. I agree; I have base system (NetBSD) in /usr, pkgsrc-managed packages in /usr/pkg and my own stuf f in /usr/y0. I think it's perfectly sensible to have things in various prefixes for separation by maintenance method. What's needed is an /etc/prefixes file, or something, that many programs can read to construct their default search path. Unfortunately this is messier because different systems have different hierarchy rules (e.g., /usr/pkg/info vs /usr/local/share/info), but in the guile case it's ok. So, what do you do to get the various code loaded? symlink stuff in /opt into /usr? Adjust load-path? Also, I'm curious why you don't just update the source package yourself and build it. In pkgsrc I often just change version numbers in makefiles and build. But I have commit privs, so it isn't wasted work, and pkgsrc has differet stability rules. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
