Re: GNOME universe
Montreal Mon Mar 15 15:29:26 1999
Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> wrote:
> Still, Gnome is pretty bad at poluting the namespace. It could do a
> lot better.
Wouldn't you say the packager is ultimately responsible for handling
this sort of thing? I mean, just because the official GNOME rpms do
this, doesn't mean the GNOME debs have to do it too.
For example, no other application in Debian that I know of uses
/usr/etc/. It's not even defined in the FHS. Yet it seems that
because the GNOME rpms use it, the GNOME debs use it too... I thought
Debian was strict about that kind of thing.
FYI:
[asimov] [/usr/etc] ls -al
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Mar 6 00:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 5 23:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Mar 5 23:37 CORBA
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 6 00:13 mc.global -> etc/mc/mc.global
Maybe I'm at fault for stealing debs from Jules personal homepage
though... :)
> There are other examples:
>
> /etc/CORBA
> /etc/sound
> /usr/share/idl
>
> Even worse are the name collisions...
I agree and an easy way out would be /etc/gnome /usr/share/gnome for
Debian. Of course, it would be very nice of the GNOME developers
accepted these patches back in...
> They recently moved /usr/share/apps -> /usr/share/gnome/apps. For a
> long time, it was colliding with KDE.
I would expect the KDE debs to follow suit.
Later,
Navin.
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