Re: Fwd: Re: SE Linux packages of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, fileutils, and [xkg]dm

[Tom <tom@lemuria.org>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:13:14PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Yes.  Sun is the only vendor I've come across that ships packages that mess 
> with /usr/local.  They seem to think that a Sun package of bash for Solaris 
> 2.6 (distributed from a Sun web site) should install to /usr/local/bin while 
> a package for Solaris 8.0 (distributed on the install CDs) should be in /bin. 
> This sort of thing really sucks when you are trying to manage a network.

OpenBSD also does this. bash is in /usr/local/bin even though it's not
a port or a 3rd party piece, but an official package.

I agree on that not being good practice. I don't know that rationale
for these, though.

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