Re: Place to install library of shell functions

In the last episode (Apr 05), Michael Grünewald said:
today I come to you with what seems to be somehow pedantic question: where
is the best place to install libraries of shell functions.

I read hier(4) carefully and it seems the correct place for this would
be somewhere under `/usr/local/share':

share/ architecture-independent files

On the base systems, many macros (make templates and groff macros) are
actually installed under /usr/share. However, the only library of shell
functions I am aware of is `/etc/rc.subr', that landed on this funny
location, probably to be pretty sure that this library is on the same
filesystem as the scripts under /etc/rc.d.

Several of the ports install shell scripts under `/usr/local/lib' that
hier(4) devotes to ``shared and archive ar(1)-type libraries''. These
shell scripts are:

The zsh port installs all its helper scripts and functions into
/usr/local/share/zsh , and the portupgrade and portmaster ports insert their
zsh autocompletion functions into /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions.
Seems to work great. Ports that install scripts into /usr/local/lib
probably either don't have separate script and lib install paths in their
makefile (tcl probably), or their scripts aren't meant to be called directly
(firefox).

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Dan Nelson
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