Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Tidy up installation paths

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:46:41PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Ian Pratt wrote:
> >>The purpose of the cleanup is to avoid cluttering $PATH with 
> >>things that are executable in another way.  Since xentop is 
> >>executable via xm top, this redundancy seemed unnecessary.
> >>
> >>It's up to Ian or Christian.  I can go either way.
> > 
> > I'd prefer 'xm top', but we do need to implement Josh's suggested
> > fixups.
> 
> One other issue as well, by the way: with xentop as a separate command,
> it can be documented through the use of a manpage (currently installed
> into /usr/share/man/man1/xentop.1).  However, with xentop only
> executable via xm, it is not possible to "man xm top".

I'd rather keep it in the user's path.  Actually, I think having it
runnable from xm is nice but doesn't really fit into the overall xm/xend
concept where xm doesn't necessarily run in the same domain as xend.

    christian


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