From kde-devel  Wed Sep 01 04:14:58 1999
From: Robert Williams <rwilliams () jrc-utah ! com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 04:14:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Redhat kde package config
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pbrown@redhat.com wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Troy Engel wrote:
>
> > pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> > >
> > > We will of course be making 1.(1.)2 packages available for Red Hat Linux
> > > 6.0.
> >
> > I'm sure you're reading the other thread.  So, can you give us the
> > outline Redhat plans on taking, so we can attempt to work together?  Any
> > chance Redhat would defer to Duncan's rpm packages to stop a packaging
> > fragment from happening?  He is indicating that the install-script is
> > pretty beefy, so perhaps that piece of the puzzle could solve problems?
> >
>
> Sure.
>
> 1. We intend to continue to maintain compatibility with the FHS, but will
> be moving the includes out of /usr/include directly to /usr/include/kde,
> and /usr/share directly to /usr/share/kde as allowed by the FHS, and as
> Stephan Kulow's debian packages are doing.
>
> 2. I am perfectly willing to get together with Duncan and anyone else who
> wants to make sure that things are compatible.  But I *cannot* violate Red
> Hat policy, and one of those policies is to be FHS where at all possible.
>
> Stephan is currently (or was the last time I talked) using this
> configuration:
>
> kde_htmldir=/usr/doc/kde/HTML \
>         kde_appsdir=/usr/share/applnk \
>         kde_icondir=/usr/share/icons \
>         kde_sounddir=/usr/share/sounds \
>         kde_datadir=/usr/share/apps \
>         kde_locale=/usr/share/locale \
>         kde_cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin \
>         kde_confdir=/etc/kde \
>         kde_mimedir=/usr/share/mimelnk \
>         kde_toolbardir=/usr/share/toolbar \
>         kde_wallpaperdir=/usr/share/wallpapers \
>         kde_bindir=/usr/bin \
>         kde_partsdir=/usr/lib/parts
>
> This is probably what I will go with.  Discussion is welcome of course,
> but this seems to be a compliant scheme that also works well.
>

This scheme looks good to me.  I am wondering when will the packages be created
by you Preston?  How far after the official release of 1.1.2? And will they be
put into updates.redhat.com?

Thanks for any info on this.


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