On Jan 4, 2008 2:14 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, a small issue is becoming a hot topic here. :)
I only talk about hot topics. First the logo contest, now the location of proto files. I gotta be careful whenever I open my mouth, lest I start another fire. :D
My thoughts: 1. PKGBUILD.proto, ChangeLog.proto, and proto.install belong in the pacman package. Thus they also belong in /usr/share/pacman. 2. Everything else (SCM PKGBUILD templates, etc) is sugar on the cake. Those should be part of abs. For consistency's sake, it is probably best to put them in /usr/share/pacman. I doubt the FHS looks highly upon mucking with the /usr/share/ directory of another program, so these should probably *not* be in /usr/share/pacman/. However, this is a homebrew package, specific to Arch, so not such a big deal. (Alternative: just keep these in abs, and with a switch to rsync we could drop them wherever we wanted them in /var/abs).
I believe what I outlined above works well with both Aaron's suggestion and Travis' thoughts. The stock prototype files definitely belong in the pacman data directories.
Fine by me.