Re: Tony Nugent's arguments about RH .spec files
Albert Dorofeev albert@mail.dma.be
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:54:20 +0100 (CET)
Ethan writes:
> > Well, you are in for a little hell on both the list and IRC
> > because people will start asking "Why do you say /usr/local/share?
> > You just told that other guy to look in /usr/share!"
> > And then they read an answer to someone else's question and
> > they try it out and come back screaming "It does not work!"
> > Is this realistic? Oh, yes. People who ask "where did the binary go?"
> > will ask these questions as well.
>
> So you're advocating installing (from rpm) to /usr/local? Not that I
> have any problem with breaking the rpm "standard". :)
No, I do not. I do not know how to make myself clearer.
You have the main distro as source. All docs are written
either for /usr/local or referring it as "installation
dir", "shared dir" or whatever. You put a special chapter
in the documentation and in the FAQ explaining that RH
installs packages in a different location. Then everyone
talks about /usr/local at least wherever they are actually
installed.
So, I am advocating having a single version of documentation
that allows us to talk about the same thing independently
from whether it is a source distro, RPM or .deb.
> ::sigh:: If it were up to me, any rpm created for AfterStep would be
> unofficial (and unsupported) anyway.
I will second that :) I had people asking for RPMs of
the applets but I am not going to do it. That would
consume all my time and raise even more questions.
Albert
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