Am 26.09.2010 um 12:32 schrieb Faelar <[email protected]>:

> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Phillip Smith <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 2) We symlink the appropriate binaries etc to /usr in the mean time.
> 
> It should quickly become "ugly" if we start to symlink binaries for every non 
> FHS compliant package :/
> 
> However :
> 
> 1. add the path /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin to the shell PATH as
> instructed by the current archserver ruby-enterprise package
> post-install.
> 
> Seems even "uglier" to me...
> 
> [...] it would allow puppet to start running immediately once installed 
> without editing.
> 
> It's Arch, I guess users know they are expected to understand, edit and 
> configure things.
> 
> So currently the solution that has my favor is :
> - Install ruby-enterprise to /opt
> - Write and explain the steps required to make it work with puppet in the 
> wiki.
> - Maybe add a post-install message to inform the user.
+1, but without the Maybe :-) Probably we should also give some input to the 
upstream project. I know that in this specific case there seem to be already 
some discussions going on in the community.
R,

Markus
> 
> PS : I'm trying to think about this issue from a global point of view. We 
> talk about ruby-enterprise here but it could be whatever software packaged in 
> a non standard way.
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