Re: What is /usr/dt/lib?
On 9 Jul 1998, Didier Verna wrote:
David Bush <dbush(a)adn.alcatel.com> writes:
> You are drawing a fine distinction. If you have CDE you do not separately
> ave Motif. The Motif libraries and header files are truely part of CDE.
> The libXm that comes with CDE provides Motif support, but is not exactly
> the same as teh corrersponding real Motif library.
I didn't know that, I don't have CDE. So I guess it's ok to have it in
a cde directory. Now, the argument falls back to the eternal matter-of-taste
discussion: when you have a package "pack" that provides libs and includes,
the policy I like is installing in /usr/include/pack and /usr/lib/pack. The
policy I dislike is installing in /usr/pack/include and /usr/pack/lib.
I'm with you but who are we to fight against the combined "wisdom" of at
least four major Unix workstation vendors and the OpenGroup? :-)
The real abomination is that CDE is an incredible memory hog. My Sun w/s
has 64MB of main memory and still pages itself silly while doing very
little. New mail arriving sends it into a tailspin!
david