Re: Rebuilding OpenSSH on RedHat 7.3

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/19/04

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    "Grant" <gpg86@hotmail.com> wrote in message
    news:c3djc4$5sa$1@news2.symantec.com...

    > Man, I really wish the linux distro folks would put stuff where the people
    > who write the software (tarballs default config scripts) put it. I mean I
    > understand the difference between /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin and possibly
    > why most tarballs default to /usr/local as a prefix but man, what a mess
    > that can lead to.

    Brother, I sympathize. But some developers don't seem to understand the
    concept of "/sbin" directories, or they put their config files scatteredly
    at the top of /etc by default rather than organizing them in a labeled
    subdirectory (SSH and sendmail are offenders here), others scatter tidbits
    into "/lib" or "/libexec" or "/share/{all-sorts-of-names}" for various
    historical or developmental reasons, etc. It's quite difficult to get all
    the freeware authors for all the platforms in existence to consistently use
    the same development standards. Heck, take a look at the Makefile's for how
    wildly different people are about doing a "make clean", or look at some of
    the strangeness of the OpenSSL installation.

    OpenSSH has actually been very good about picking supportable standards and,
    where there might be some disagreement for specific deployments, providing
    documented options to set them otherwise. Goodness, I'm happy about this! It
    really does make developmentn easier.

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