[publican-list] Suggesting /usr/share/publican instead of /usr/share/Publican

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Mon Oct 26 06:25:25 UTC 2009


On 09/06/2009 11:37 PM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> Hi Danai,
>
> Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm wondering if there's a reason why Publican puts everything in
>> /usr/share/Publican/. Is it a Red Hat policy to start directories in
>> /usr/share/ with a capital? If not, would you consider renaming it to
>> its lowercase version (cfr. line 173 of Build.PL in the trunk)? As an
>> end user I expected the files to be in /usr/share/publican/.
>>
>> On line 14 of publican.spec in the trunk I have noticed the following:
>>
>> # TODO after beta revert to lower case name
>>
>> Does this mean that "Publican" will be renamed to "publican" in the
>> future, and with it the name in /usr/share/?
>
> This is correct. The use of Publican is so that people can install the
> beta alongside the current shipped version and thus test the beta
> without affecting their ability to do their normal work.
>

The funny thing is, I need the beta to do my normal work, but it's not 
available to me (doesn't build from source either).

-- Jeroen




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