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Re: Re: GNUstep and FHS



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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:25:04AM +1200, Dale Anderson wrote:
> Has anyone actually sat down and researched WHY things have been stuck
> where they are currently rather than  wholesale munging around the
> GNUstep framework to suite the linux FSH, iirc it was moved to
> /usr/lib /usr/local/lib originally to keep the general unix'y world happy,
> what detrimental effect is this pontentially going to have on elements
> within the framework , app bundles/FAT binaries etc etc etc etc
> ............not to mention in doing so goes against the principals of
> the original derived framework also . 

And those principles are (possibly) in contradiction with Debian policy.
When making Debian packages, for distribution with Debian, it's Debian
policy that takes precedence over any other principles that may be at
work upstream.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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