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RE: new cygwin package: cgoban




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:04 AM

> Volker Zell agreed.  Nobody else responded.  I kinda like it, but FHS 
> has moved away from that; now on Red Hat systems it appears that ONLY 
> those programs specifically part of XFree86 are included there -- or 
> programs whose purpose is to manipulate XFree86 itself (like 
> third-party 
> Xconfigurators and such).

I'm agnostic on this one, I don't use X enough to really care. However,
Earnie has pointed out that extra path elements have a lamentable
performance impact, so perhaps we should be avoiding that?
 
> Similarly, I don't like the restriction that all 'X'-based 
> packages go 
> under XFree86/ on sourceware.  We don't put inetutils underneath 
> ncurses/.  We don't put openssh under openssl/.

I'm 100% with you here. If it's a package, then it goes under release.
If we want a completely separate tree, create a new location and a new
setup.ini, and then that becomes the cygwin-xfree lists domain, and they
can have whatever policy they want. Whilst it's in the main setup.ini,
they need to follow the policies that this list has hammered out - with
much pain.
 
> If you really want to segregate X apps, create another tree: Xopt/ or 
> something (and give Harold "official" control of that tree, too).  I 
> think XFree86/ should be reserved for the XFree86 distribution itself.

Agreed.
 
> I'd like to see a definitive answer to both of these questions, tho, 
> before we get too many X programs in the distribution...
>    1) --prefix=/usr/X11R6/

In short: I don't really care, but am not in favour of.

>    2) packages uploaded under XFree86/

Really don't like this.

Rob


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