Hi Christian,

thanks for the feedback.

Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Oliver Braun wrote:
> 
>>I am currently thinking about moving the desktop icons and the distro
>>independent mime stuff into separate packages.
> 
> 
> What do you mean by distro-independent mime-stuff? If this is the
> shared-mime-info stuff it is OK for me, but I for myself don't like the
> idea to install legacy mime-info/*.keys & info with the freedesktop-menu
> package. (The whole point of this package is to get rid of these)

Yes, I am talking about shared-mime-info and the mailcap & mime.types
modification postinstall part only. The legacy stuff should remain in
the suse and redhat packages.

> 
> Since these are just names,... What should those packages contain (a
> filelist would be handy) and where should the things contained be
> installed to?
> 
> I have no objections against the desktop-icons package if it
> would only contain the icons in /usr/share/icons - but as the suse-menus
> package conatins /opt/gome/share/icons and /opt/kde3/share/icons...

I think it is only a matter of time until also SuSE/Novell will adopt
/usr/share/icons (as they did with /usr/share/mime etc.).

So the desktop-icons package would install to /usr/share/icons and the
suse-menus package would create corresponding symlinks in /opt/gnome and
/opt/kde as necessary.

> 
> To sum-it up: I'm sceptical about this. If issue 46530 is not solvable
> for OOo 2.0 I vote against it no matter what they contain since
> identifying the relocatable/base packages will be impossible and thus
> lead to unnecessary installation errors.

Those new packages would always be installed. However I am not sure what
happens if one tries to relocate unrelocatable packages.

Of cause there is still the problem that only the redhat- or the suse-
or the freedesktop-menus .... package can be installed.


> So I suggest having a "master" makefile that does all the makefile stuff
> and let the menu-packages (spec-files) assemble the package (similar to
> the way the freedesktop-package is created - take the "master tree" and
> remove everything you don't need)
> 
> This is about the same effort that you'll have with seperate
> desktop-icons and mime-data packages (maybe even less)

Actually I am not very happy with the makefile magic as you call it.
However doing it once (e.g. in desktop/share) would also be a viable
approach.

> 
> PS:
> Is is really not possible to put the menu-packages into a subfolder of
> the release-tarball?
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46530

Hmm, need to take a closer look at it.

Regards,
Oliver


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