On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:08:45PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 08:56:58PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > My biggest objection is that we haven't yet got any kind of proposal for > > subdivision of /usr/share/images. Who wants to come up with one? Hint: it > > would be best if we didn't have to hack every window manager in existence > > to support it, and if we didn't have to modify window managers' config > > files everytime a new package containing images was installed or removed. > > Hmm. That's a good point. > > How about the following initial idea: > > Images which are general and intended for use by (almost) any program > should go in the top level /usr/share/images. If an image is intended > to be used in a restricted set of programs, for example, > GNOME-specific images (if such a thing exists), it would go in > /usr/share/images/gnome, or window-manager specific images would go in > /usr/share/images/wm-icons or whatever. Then only the types of > programs which would use those images would have to search that > subtree. We would possibly need a mini-policy on the subtrees > allowed. I really don't see the fundamental difference between doing that and our existing practice of putting some package-specific data in /usr/share/<package>/. I would be more inclined to suggest the GNOME packages, if they for some reason need to restrict such data to themselves, have the run of a /usr/share/gnome directory which can be internally organized however they wish (image, sound, etc.)/ Also, to maintain consistency with existing directory naming conventions, I suggest we use the singular form of "image" (i.e., we don't have "/usr/bins/", "/usr/libs/", or "/usr/docs/"). -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | The noble soul has reverence for itself. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Friedrich Nietzsche roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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