Re:Why /sw? (Score 1)

Fink should install itself into /usr/local/fink. Why doesn't it? And please do not point me towards the Fink FAQ--this only refers to installing in /usr/local (fine, a bad idea), but neverthelss, /sw should not be the alternative. /usr/local/fink with directories like /usr/local/fink/bin and /usr/local/fink/lib would be a considerably more Unix-consistent place to put these files.

Completely wrong!

/usr/local/ isn't meant to have this directory structure. Packages in /usr/local/ should install their binaries to /usr/local/bin/, their libs to /usr/local/lib/ (there they could have a subdirectory, just like in /usr/lib/), their man pages to /usr/local/man/manX/ etc.

Packages that want to manage their own directory structure should use /opt/Name/.