Re: new package format
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- Subject: Re: new package format
- From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
- Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:47:27 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <b28b6cf70907310532r678e652bt85d779e730deced@mail.gmail.com> (Eugene Gorodinsky's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:32:43 +0300")
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]] Eugene Gorodinsky
| I also think some abstraction from the actual filesystem is a good
| idea. For example currently the only way to install a lib in a
| directory other than the one it was intended for is by using a hack
| that would look at the directory of a file and move it somewhere. It
| seems that with the current situation where you want to use
| /lib/i386-linux-gnu tuples instead of the approach used before, would
| be less painful if the current package format had some abstraction
| from the filesystem. Since the programs don't usually care where the
| library is, as long as it is in the LDD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Except that this doesn't work particularly well. Libraries embed
paths, and detecting when they do is painful.
[...]
| Currently debian policy is to have a .desktop file for each GUI
| program. What would be better, IMHO, is having some sort of
| abstraction, so that the package manager itself would create a
| .desktop file entry, given an icon and some information about the
| package.
like, the path, the description, translated into multiple languages and
so on? This is just .desktop files reinvented.
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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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