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.