From kde-devel  Wed Sep 01 08:26:50 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:26:50 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Redhat kde package config
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93617428327138

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.
> 
I think, the htmldir has moved to /usr/share

Greetings, Stephan

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