Bug#53762: PROPOSED] applying the FHS to packages that use X
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:33:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > But if we accept this (which seems likely, given no objections
> > received so far), let's try to get the icon/pixmap/whatever issue
> > solved at the same time, because packages won't be permitted to use
> > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/* once this is accepted.
>
> I agree that we should get the image/pixmap business sorted out, but I
> don't agree that this policy forbids the usage of /usr/X11R6/include/X11.
True enough.
> You and I seem to care more about the issue of icon/image paths than anyone
> else. :) Did we reach a consensus?
Understandable: how many maintainers have pacakges with general
purpose icons, and how many maintainers have window-manager packages
which have to use them?!
I don't think we really reached much of a concensus, except that
things should go in one of /usr/share/{images,icons}. Beyond that....
Julian
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