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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] GNUStep and FHS compliance
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:32:45 +0100

Andrew "ruskie" Levstik wrote :

> I have recently(read today) installed GNUStep needed by a game oolite-linux.
>
> I have found the following imho very serious BUG in these spells.
>
> Everything is installed under /usr/GNUStep which ISN'T FHS compliant.
>
> I would propose to do one of the following things to improve the FHS
> compliance.
>
> a) Install everything under /usr/share/GNUStep - this is how debian does it
> b) Install everything under /usr/lib/GNUStep - this would be same as
> mozilla&co
> c) Install everything under /opt/GNUStep - proposed solution on
> debian-policy
>
> If anyone has other suggestions please come forth or correct me where I
> might
> be wrong. When this is discused a bug should be opened for the gnustep
> sections
> in buzilla with the required solution.
>
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And another note I just run a configure --help on the gnustep-base
and was wondering why it couldn't use the normal default_build
since it has --bindir and all that supported it seems...

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