Would like to import CORE into Fedora (naming problem)

[Denis Leroy]

Laurent Rineau wrote:
> During the review of CGAL¹ (bug #199168), a problem was raised by Ralf C.: the 
> first version of CGAL-devel was shipping CORE², a dependency of CGAL. That 
> library installs its headers into /usr/include/CORE/* and Ralf said that the 
> name "CORE" is too general for an inclusion into FE.
> 
> Even if the official reviewer of my request accepted the package as-is, with 
> CORE shipped, I eventually decided to remove the CORE library from CGAL, for 
> the moment. However, without CORE, a few features of CGAL are not enabled 
> (the exact geometrical kernel needs CORE).
> 
> I would like to have your opinion on the two following questions:
>   1/ Is a directory named /usr/include/CORE/ (uppercase) is acceptable in 
> Fedora Extras?

How about moving it up to /usr/include/CGAL/CORE, for example. Then it's 
"only" a matter of patching the Makefile.am files and running 
'autoreconf' (hmm, is it automake/conf based ?).

-d