On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:37:16PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote: > Quoth Marcus Brinkmann: > > > You need a /bin/X11 -> ., though. And the link /usr/include/X11 has to be > > removed as there is now the real stuff, like with the lib example.
> Yep. I'll have to check for filename clashes in /bin, but as these > would be just as silly as those in /lib, I hope there are none. IMO > binaries with the same names in those two dirs would be a bug in the > distribution anyway. Right. Same for /usr/X11R6/man and /usr/X11R6/include. It should be easy. > I hope there are no LSB/FHS people here, as they would probably be > fainting from all the ugliness right about now... (Actually, as a Linux > admin and distribution maintainer, I'm feeling a bit queasy myself. I'm > trying to keep my hurd hat firmly planted on my head while thinking > about this... ;) You should try to look in a mirror, the hat suits you fine ;) Actually, the symlinks are what is ugly. Note that the symlinks for include/lib denote the *standard* place of the files. This is why packages should reference those instead the physical location. Packages must not contain files there because dpkg can't cope with symlinks. IMHO, the LSB/FHS people should quiver in their boots because of the whole /usr/X11R6 excemption. We are just correcting some historical bugs here. When we have some experience with it, I will try to build some Debian X packages with prefix "" (thanks, Roland) and a few symlinks corrected. Branden is also interested in this, so we might as well do some leg work. It would really be cleaner for us this way. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
