Frédéric schrieb: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> | PS: By the way I vote for the /opt/gnome2 hirarchy for this package. >> >> As I've stated already, this is also my opinion. >> >> To make this easier for Gerrit to decide, I've written the attached >> scripts which should be included in the glib2 package. The scripts >> glib2.sh and .csh are to be installed in /etc/profile.d and add >> /opt/gnome2 to all path variables that I could think of. The >> postinstall.sh adds /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal to the aclocal dirlist, >> for easier aclocal & autoreconf jobs. > I insist it's a bad idea to not install in /usr something that > isn't only used by GNOME, doesn't depend on any GNOME > libraries, and will likely be used by the next Midnight > Commander (which is part of Cygwin) build. GLib is also used by > many other projects which aren't part of Cygwin, including > irssi, a CLI IRC client. > I'd like to know why some people want it in /opt or whatever. > Actually, GLib is like audiofile, libxml, libxslt, etc, which > are in /usr. I also think all Linux distributions install it in > /usr. > IMO, /opt or whatever should only be used for real GNOME > packages. > It's such things that makes some people think GLib is a GNOME > or graphical library and should be avoided at all. I agree. There are some overlappings though. But since there are already some of the core libraries of the GNOME desktop in /usr we should just stay with it. Gerrit -- =^..^=