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unsupported/ (was Re: libiconv & gettext (many))
- From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at emcb dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:26:29 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: unsupported/ (was Re: libiconv & gettext (many))
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:48:11AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >
> >>>These two package-sets should be updated together.
> >>
> >>
> >>>libiconv-1.9.1-1
> >>>libiconv2-1.9.1-1
> >>>libcharset1-1.9.1-1
> >>
> >>
> >>>gettext-0.12.1-1
> >>>gettext-devel-0.12.1-1
> >>>libintl2-0.12.1-1
> >>>libgettextpo0-0.12.1-1 (*)
> >>
> >>
> >>The gettext manpages were installed into usr/share/man/*
> >
> >Actually, now that I think about this, is it so bad? /usr/share/man/*
> >IS in the FHS. Would it be so awful to (a) allow both /usr/share/man
> >and /usr/man, and/or gradually transition to a more compliant (e.g.
> >/usr/share/man) hierarchy?
>
> I had the same thought. I don't have any problems with the gradual adoption
> of /usr/share/man, as long as the "man" command works with it, of course.
>
> I wish we'd used /usr/share/man from the start, in fact. Oh well.
>
> As they say at Red Hat "We are still learning".
This talk of adhering the FHS made me remember Chuck's proposal for an
'unsupported/' dir (<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00306.html>)
in ~ftp/pub/cygwin .
Chris raised some concerns about the cygwin mailing list filling up with lot's
of musings about the 'unsupported' packages, but I think there's a way we can
have an unsupported range of packages without the noise: integrate these
'unsupported' offerings with the "Software" list on the cygwin home page.
Any thoughts?
Elfyn
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