Re: "goals" for slink: FHS
Raul Miller wrote:
> I'm imagining that this would be part of the preinst script for some
> essential package, perhaps one named "fhs". Every fhs compliant package
> would have to depend on this. [Note that this dependency scheme is much
> simpler than what would be required if we had to update a whole bunch
> of packages to support the new locations.]
>
> You've suggested that we have some packages that would interfere with
> this script. I'm not sure why this would be the case -- for example,
> man won't work on such manpages (at least not till it's upgraded),
> and info wouldn't work either. Can you point me at these scripts?
Future FHS-compliant packages will put files in /usr/share, and you
cannot be sure that none have been unpacked before the "fhs" preinst
is run. So everything will have to Pre-Depend, not just Depend, on
the fhs package.
Richard Braakman
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