Re: GNOME universe
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Montreal Tue Mar 16 16:32:55 1999
>
> Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> >
> > > Montreal Tue Mar 16 03:36:37 1999
> > >
> > > Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Why not --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome ?
> >
> > Why not put all applications linked to Xaw in /etc/xaw? Why not put all
> > perl based applications in /etc/perl? Why not...
>
> Why not put Fvwm2 files in /etc/X11/fvwm2/ or GTK+ files in /etc/gtk/
> or GNUStep files in /etc/GNUStep/. Oops, you do that already. Yet
> what is this meaningless paper.config doing in /etc/?
OK. paper.config is probably name-space pollution.
However, your examples aren't valid, IMO..
GNOME is not a single package - it's a set of libraries and some CORBA
interfaces. I don't see why we should stick all its conf files in one
directory, any more than we should any other arbitrary grouping of
packages.
I don't want to emphasis the distinction between GNOME and non-GNOME apps
- I see a spectrum of apps, with GNOME support varying from none to
complete.
If I were to port xemacs to gnome, and call it gnome-xemacs, I wouldn't
move it's config files..
>
> > Because we have a file hierarchy specification, and we attempt to conform
> > to it.
>
> The FHS doesn't say you can't arrange your config files
> hierarchically or if it does, it should be shunned.
Indeed, it doesn't say that.
But we use hierarchically organisation for specific packages, not for
arbitrary groupings of apps.
Jules
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