Am 17.04.2012 04:35, schrieb Ivy Foster:
On 16 Apr 2012, at 8:37 pm -0400, John J. Foerch wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Thorsten wrote:
unfortunately, the Arch Linux maintainers decided a
while ago that the Conkeror Spawn Helper violates Arch
packaging philosophies and simply threw it out of the
conkeror package.
This is no longer the case, as of February. See
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54870 .
However, I miss it.
Update, update!
Do you know what about the program violated Arch's policy?
I think that the original maintainer thought it had to
reside in /usr/share/conkeror/. Per hier(7), /usr/share is
only for "application data, that can be shared among
different architectures of the same OS," so a compiled
binary is likely to be a violation of that.
iff
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I was the former maintainer, and I included the binary, but
it always has been a thorn in my eye. Thanks to Ivy, who
figured out the solution, it is no longer.
BTW the packaging philosophy not to have architecture dependent
files under /usr/share is from FHS[1]. Arch developers try to follow
given standards where they can.
[1]
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
Thanks for reading and best regards.
Stefan
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