Mark is absolutely correct in feeling that installing packages inside other packages is a big no-no. It violates the Linux file system standard (Lbig time. I would suggest that BSF4Rexx be installed directly in /opt/BSF4Rexx and that is should make no modifications to anything in any other package.
If you notice ooRexx creates links from files in the /opt/ooRexx subdirectory tree to /usr/bin and /usr/lib. This is the recommendation of the file system standard. There may be dependencies that are impacted causing applications not to function when one package is removed but files will not be impacted. David Ashley This is all done this way so that any package does not impact the install or removal of another package. There may be On 08/02/2010 02:03 PM, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rony G. Flatscher > <rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote: > >> t >> On 02.08.2010 20:14, CVBruce wrote: >> >>> I know that I wrote the ooRexx V4.0.1 scripts for MacOS preflight and >>> postflight to touch only the things that were ooRexx. They will not >>> remove BSF4Rexx if present. >>> > >> Hmm, then this is about the install/deinstall scripts of the providers >> (hence the ooRexx responsible persons)? >> > I know that the current debian and rpm packages delete everything > under /opt/oorexx. That's why I asked if you had tested.<grin> > > There is no changing of that for 4.0.1. It is possible that you could > get this changed in a future release. However, it's the way it has > been done for some time. We can see what David thinks, I don't pay > much attention to what the "standard way" to do things on Linux is. > > But, from the stand point of a user that often needs to get things > done on Linux, my 2 cents is that installing a package in a > subdirectory of some other package does not feel right to me. > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
