On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > When I packaged the gnome apps, I originally installed them into > /usr/X11R6 because they were X applications. > > David Engel disagreed with this, and said /usr/X11R6 was only for the > X system itself, not applications. Since I couldn't find anything in > the Debian Policy manual, FSSTND or FHS that said apps should (or > shouldn't) go into /usr/X11R6, I agreed to move them. > > I also notice that libgtk1 was not installed under /usr/X11R6. I > think there are many other examples. > > Now I've recieved requests to move the Gnome binaries/libraries back > to /usr/X11R6.
I was one of them.... > Personally, I don't care where they go. But there needs to be a clear > policy on this. Either: > > a) /usr/X11R6 is for the X11 system only. > > b) /usr/X11R6 is for the X11 system and all libraries and applications > which depend on X. I personally vote for b). My reasoning is that it makes it easier for people to rearrange file-systems. Originally I had /usr all on one file-system. Now, when I installed more and more stuff, this filled up. I needed some room, and thus looked at which directories were large. /usr/X11R6 was, and it also seemed like a logical grouping. Therefore, I moved /usr/X11R6 to a seperate filesystem, thereby freeing up lotsa megabytes. So I started installing more and more stuff. Now my /usr filesystem is filling up again. I started looking at what was installed in /usr/, and found out that a lot of programs I expected to be in /usr/X11R6/bin where in fact in /usr/bin. So far for my reasoning that moving X somewhere else was gonna help. Examples of programs I expected to be installed in /usr/X11R6/bin where all gnome stuff, and gimp. Anybody has reasoning for putting this stuff in /usr/bin? Maarten _____________________________________________________________________________ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering | | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
