On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:37:24PM +0200, Sven wrote: > /usr/share/ocaml/meta or /usr/share/ocaml/findlib would be the best choices > (but again, this is a post woody thing, which would need to be documented in > the ocaml policy, would you care to contribute a small paragraph about those > things ?). Ok, but let's delay this issue a bit more ... > Well, we would need to change the path variable in /etc/ocamlfind.conf > (BTW, /etc/ocaml/findlib.conf would be a better name). No problem, I can change it in a postinst or using debconf. I chose ocamlfind.conf for two reasons: 1) is the same name of the findlib executable 2) is the upstream name Anyway I think that it's better placed in /etc/ocaml/ too. > Also, claudio told me that it uses the OCAMLPATH env var, but this is not a > findlib specific variable, and could cause problems. Yes, but as a stable solution, we can use ocamlfind.conf that is findlib specific. > Yes, after the woody release. I would prefer : > > put things into /usr/share/ocaml/meta. > > have the conf dir be /etc/ocaml/findlib.conf and having a path variable > pointing to "/usr/share/ocaml/meta:/usr/lib/ocaml" (the later for backward > compatibility with self installed stuff. Agreed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy zack@cs.unibo.it | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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