Re: GNOME universe
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> 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... :)
Doh.
That's a bug (as someone else observed).
FWIW, /usr/local/etc makes some sense, and I can see why people use it.
Therefore, when you ./configure --prefix=/usr you have to remember to
--sysconfdir=/etc.
Any further reports along these lines to
debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org, please.
Jules
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