[Fedora-packaging] Re: GNUstep filesystem layout discussion

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Sat Aug 23 22:41:30 UTC 2008


On Sunday, 24 August 2008 at 00:20, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michel Salim <michel.sylvan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > - FHS, flattened (like Debian). We would need to override GNUstep-make
> > to install under %{_libdir} rather than %{_prefix}/lib. It will
> > require a customized openapp to handle multilib systems
> 
> I consider this to be the only way to really comply with the FHS as required by 
> the Fedora Packaging Guidelines.
> 
> And as Axel rightly pointed out, binaries do not belong to /usr/bin/GNUstep/: 
> if they're intended to be run directly, they should be directly under /usr/bin, 
> otherwise they should be under /usr/libexec/GNUstep.

Sounds reasonable, +1.

Regards,
R.

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