Re: --new-system option to install tools to their common places

[Jim Meyering]

Dennis Heuer <address@hidden> wrote:
> i'm not shure about what the LSB says to this but many progs search for
> tools at places where they aren't. for example, i have the coreutils in
> /usr but firefox, since verison 3 (minefield), tries to start /bin/ls
> from the start-script. possibly that's where ls should be. i'm not
> shure. however, i remembered glibc and the special --prefix=/usr
> option, which is interpreted as "system main installation". glibc then
> installs to both / and /usr and creates symlinks as it is expected to
> be ever since under linux. possibly, coreutils could offer such an
> (LSB-compliant or historically correct) prefix or special option to put
> the single tools to their 'correct' or 'common' places.

This has historically been the domain of distribution packagers.
Sorry, but I don't expect coreutils to provide special options
to ease installation into e.g., multiple bin directories.