Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sat Jul 6 11:38:00 GMT 2002
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:02:31PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
>
>>>I would go ahead and allow ALL of the scripts and man pages to be
>>>duplicated (bdftops, font2c, gslj, etc) into both /usr/bin/|/usr/man and
>>>/usr/X11R6/bin|/usr/X11R6/man -- without any renaming.
>>>
>>Or have a ghostscript-docs-x.y.z which just contains documents...
>>
>
> That won't be too convenient for people who want to read man pages.
>
> I'd suggest just using symbolic links in the /usr/X11R6/... directories
> to the /usr/... directories.
But everybody is assuming that everything under /usr/X11R6/ (with the
exception of gs.exe) will be identical to the stuff under /usr.
This *may* be true, NOW. But it ain't necessarily so -- and even if it
is, it ain't guaranteed to remain that way.
I'm thinking of /usr/X11R6 and /usr as two different "platforms" -- so
the only thing that can be shared among platforms is <prefix>/share/*
(by analogy, think of a filesystem shared between linux, hpux, and
solaris: every platform gets its own /usr tree, but they can share
/usr/share.)
[That's why the FHS puts man pages in /usr/share/man -- *presumably* man
pages are identical on all platforms. Not always true, but hey]
I'm assuming that ONLY the stuff put into <prefix>/share is identical
between our pseudo-"platforms"; everything else is a priori unique.
--Chuck
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