Re: Playing with the spec
Hi,
I have just subscribed to this list (at least, I think so,
since the confirm message was in what I believe is spanish, and that
is beyond my ken). Is there an archive of previous discussion on this
subject?
Could someone explain the rationale of embedding version
numbers in the directory structure, hance having the directory
structure change with each package upgrade, rather than having things
like /usr/share/sgml/jade-1.2.1/?
I would also be interested in the reasons for hard coding
package names into a recommended standard. It seems to be me, perhaps
naively, that we would be better off specifying package agnostic
layouts like:
/usr/share/sgml/
stylesheets/
dtds/
decls/
entities/
and let each vendor/distribution handle how individual packages
provide the files under each of the directories.
I am willing to be shown the error of my ways.
manoj
ps> please CC me on this discussion, since I am unsure of my
ps> confirmation actually succeeded.
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p. 16
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