On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:18:38PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> So, the next batch of questions:
>
> 1. Is there a /usr/gnu/{include,lib,etc}? (Isn't another lib just
> asking for trouble?)
The only thing I can think of that would go there would be libncurses
and ncurses.h, installed as libcurses and curses.h. While it might be
asking for trouble, this specific instance would probably be a big win
for people building unportable apps that assume curses is ncurses.
Are there other examples of possible consumers of /usr/gnu/lib?
> 2. Do we try to construct a meaningful info installation here, or in
> some other common location?
If we ever intend to deliver any non-GNU infodocs with conflicting
names, /usr/gnu/share/info is probably mandatory - I don't imagine
we'd want to combine the GNU and non-GNU texi into a single infodoc as
we have for the Solaris/xpg4/xpg6 man pages.
In that same vein, if we link the infodocs together, 'info gfoo' and
'INFOPATH=/usr/gnu/share/info info foo' will both show the same
program name. Do we deliver duplicates?
One concern is GNU info's reversion to displaying man pages if no
infodoc is available; on a system without the GNU diffutils texinfo
page, for example, 'info diff' will display diff(1). If diffutils is
installed but the infodocs are not, the right result would instead be
to display gdiff(1) or, if the man pages are not installed, fail.
Once again, we must choose between doing the Right Thing for users and
shipping external apps unmodified.
> 3. I am assuming /usr/gnu/share/man is desired.
I don't think it's desired, but unless we're going to modify our
regular man pages to reflect the GNUisms (as we have for xpg4 and xpg6
but not ucb), it seems unavoidable.
--
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Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
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