Polishing stuff - gnome-filesystem package

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Feb 19 12:41:17 UTC 2007


David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:43 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:

>> Good stuff, I was thinking of adding similar/dup items to
>> kde-filesystem.  Maybe we can make a generic userdir/skel package for
>> this kind of thing.  Reviewers might get picky of 2 pkgs (try to) own
>> the same dirs (though I don't think it necessarily a problem in this
>> case).
> 
> What about having a co-maintained desktop-filesystem package with
> desktop-filesystem-gnome and desktop-filesystem-kde sub packages?
> (possibly other sub packages for e.g. xfce)
> 
> That would provide the various desktop maintainers with a natural way of
> keeping abreast of changes to the user directory layouts. Also the docs
> for how packages should integrate would live in the main desktop-
> filesystem package and our packaging guidelines would point to that.

That makes a whole lot of sense.  

-- Rex




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