On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > Now, here's my solution, and it's very simple. This involves mostly > policy, and lots of package changes. It doesn't really affect the package > manager, nor the build-tools. > > Packages would be required to read a file, /etc/dpkg-dev/dirs-i386 for > example, that would list the system directories in this format: > > libdir=/usr/lib > syslibdir=/lib > bindir=/usr/bin > sbindir=/usr/sbin > sysbindir=/bin > syssbindir=/sbin > mandir=/usr/share/man > x11bindir=/usr/X11R6/bin > (....) > > This would solve all the problems above. Overlay ports could then create > files for libraries to be installed correctly, other non-FHS-compliant > ports could have their special directories, and third-party-OS users could > have their /usr/local setup, just by rebuilding the packages with a > custom directory config. > > Thoughts, concerns, ideas?
I've also being playing around with this idea for a while now. My motivation, which you may want to add to your list, is to provide for a debian package to be built using the normal file system structure or an "/opt" based one. In our development we must be able to keep multiple versions of packages around. The /opt layout is a clean solution to this problem. -- Jean Pierre
