On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:45:21PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
>
> >> data/autoconf/
> >>    xorg-autoconf-macros
> > 
> > What's in here?  (And if you say "autoconf macros", I'm walkin' downstairs
> > and kickin' your ass.)  Would other packages depend on this in any way?
> > Are they generic to xorg, or do they include bits that are specific to
> > particular components?
> 
> They are needed for people who want to run autoconf on the configure.ac
> in an X.Org source package to rebuild the configure script.   People
> building packages like GNOME that depend on X.Org packages don't need
> it - the vast majority of the world doesn't need it.   It's not specific
> to any one package though, but something used by all packages.

It seems like it could be rolled into the main xorg package?

> > I think having "autoconf" in two places is redundant.  How about
> > data/autoconf/xorg?
> 
> That works.   Is "data" the right category for autoconf macros?

<shrug>  It's all very fluid.  Let's see what joins it.

> >> documentation/
> >>    xorg-docs   [docs unaffiliated with specific software packages,
> >>                    mostly the contents of /usr/X11/share/man5 ]
> > 
> > Similar comment about duplication here: "documentation/xorg"?  Or
> > "docs/xorg"?
> 
> I'd just taken the upstream package name there - docs/xorg or docs/xorg-misc
> works for me - is the category going to be "documentation" or "docs"?
> (Doesn't Stephen have a rule about non-plural category names that docs would
>  violate?)

I hadn't heard that.  We can let this bit settle over time.

Danek

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