On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:23:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Still, nothing says the FHS will never change, and change is very > > difficult with everything doing their own thing. So my argument is still > > that a central place describing these locations that the packages query, > > is a better thing. This, in addition to my other reasons for this > > proposal. > > Your idea is hardly a panacea. Look at two of the FHS changes we have > been dealing with: /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc and /var/lib/games to > /var/games. Even if packages had some trivial way to tell that these > directories had changed, that is not good enough; a fair amount of > code needs to be added to maintainer scripts to make the upgrade > smooth.
That's arguable. The usr/doc -> usr/share/doc fiasco could have been avoided if the patch I made for dpkg had come a few months earlier. Nothing in the package scripts would have had to do anything. I also don't recall saying it fixed this thing completely. Anyway, even dh_installdocs had a fair amount of similar spirit to this fix for usr/doc, considering package scripts simply called dh_installdocs instead of hardcoding it. Wouldn't you say this simply takes it a step further Joey? Granted dh_installdocs also added things for the symlink requirement, but that was a shortcoming in dpkg (that was later fixed), not a shortcoming in the solution that dh_installdocs provided. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
