Re: Intent to package: molecular biology programs
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 12:01:21PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Saturday 29 August 1998, at 19 h 28, the keyboard of Tyson Dowd
> <trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>
> > If they *are* user executables, they need to be separated. A common
> > technique for doing this is to create a shell script named after the
> > package, which executes the correct command (which lives in
> > /usr/lib/packagename)
>
> Wichert Akkerman objected it would violate the FHS and FSSTD?
I think it's OK to put executables under /usr/lib/packagename if they are
not to be used directly (running /usr/lib/packagename/foo), just invoked
by another program. In fact, that's what dselect/dpkg currently does,
there are a few executables under /usr/lib/dpkg that are called by the
usual dselect/dpkg tools.
I like the idea of a "phylip" wrapper.
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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