Re: Building with pdump litters /usr/local/bin

Valdis> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 09:45:43 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" Valdis> said: Valdis> Say hello to a sysadmin who's really anal-retentive about Valdis> being able to identify where a random binary came from, Valdis> and what its reason for being is. ;) Hello to a sysadmin who's really anal-retentive about being able to identify where a random binary came from, and what its reason for being is. ;) I know youse guys are out there. :-) This isn't an election; if everybody but you says "I don't care" and you say "I care (and others should, too)" convincingly, you win. Convince me. First off, I'm sorry, but I miswrote. What I really wanted to know was "suppose we document it. Then do you care?" The installed dump file implies it's part of XEmacs by its name. If this were properly documented in Info, FAQ, INSTALL, NEWS, and Installation, would you still object to this file being installed in .../bin? Nicholas and Martin evidently object because it's not an executable command. Is that the way you feel about it, or do you worry primarily because it's undocumented? Are there _tools_ that sweep bin directories for non-executable cruft that would care, to anybody's knowledge? Is that a sufficiently good idea that even if they _don't_ exist, someone should write one (and probably will)? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."