On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:05 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > I am planning on moving the install locations of all the rox-base/* and > rox-extra/* applications from their current location (/usr/lib/rox) to > something a little more FHS-correct[1] and tolerant of multilib support. > > The main reason for this change is that I got a bug from amd64 because > the /usr/lib path is hard-coded all over the place (ie, not multilib > compliant), but it's always sort of bugged me that these packages are > in /usr/lib - They're not actually libaries (except for rox-clib). > These rox applications are a new special case that don't fit into the > FHS, called "Application Directories"[2], and I need a good place to > put them. > > Please note that every rox application creates a symlink in /usr/bin > which runs the application regardless of where it exists in the > filesystem, so from an end-user perspective this doesn't really > matter. (Except a small bit of migration when I actually do move these > packages, which will be the topic for another day). > > I'd like input from any interested parties on where the proper > location may be. Here are some ideas with their justifications and > problems, as I see them: > ...
Have you considered /usr/lib/misc/rox? Ed -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
