Hi,
Ivan Vučica wrote:
On 7. studenoga 2013. at 19:30:06, Liam Proven ([email protected]
<mailto://[email protected]>) wrote:
> 1) they are packaged tremendously (breaking up packages in a sort fo
> gnome-ish layout), but alas, that mostly works
I do not understand this sentence.
I presume Riccardo *might* be referring to Debian attempting to make
GNUstep’s applications conform to FHS-compliant layout of the rest of
the system. Executables go here, data goes here, etc.
Exactly, I am referring to this:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/GNUstep
/usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications
/usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/ViewPDF.app
/usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/ViewPDF.app/stamp.make
/usr/lib/GNUstep/Applications/ViewPDF.app/ViewPDF
/usr/share
/usr/share/GNUstep
/usr/share/GNUstep/ViewPDF.app
/usr/share/GNUstep/ViewPDF.app/FitHeightOn.png
/usr/share/GNUstep/ViewPDF.app/Previous.png
/usr/share/GNUstep/ViewPDF.app/FitWidth.png
this is against the GNUstep Bundle concept.
If you have instead a real gnustep bundle, it is self-contained.
Do you know how easy it is in theory to install an application? copy it
into /Local/Applications or if you prever it system-wide, then move it
into /System/Applications or /Network/Applications
That's it. Why break it up? the purpose of "share" would be to share a
resource but
1) gnustep "shares" the usage with frameworks, bundles, etc
2) if you put it in /usr/share/GNUstep/ViewPDF.app/Previous.png, it is a
"fake" sharing, it is private to ViewPDF anyway. So it is fake compliance
So, at the end, I think you gain nothing, but break the toy.
I would, however, love to know more about what Debian maintainers did
wrong (without having to check myself, that is) :-)
well, apart from the problem above, essentially some packages are very
old. Some packages have been updated without upating core, so they are a
mix. For a period they were totally broken due to some packages being
compiled with a different gcc compiler than core, that has been solved.
To be honest, I actually stopped checking what exactly is wrong. The two
problems above are the first stopper.
I have an old laptop where I periodically check for gnustep packages of
"unstable", I have seen nothing new lately. Also, they broke X11 server
on my laptop, so well, that isn't nice either, but totally unrelated.
Riccardo
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