[arch-dev-public] save some kb - ln ;)

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/24/07, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: arch-dev-public-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public-
> > bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Damir Perisa
> > Verzonden: maandag 24 september 2007 0:23
> > Aan: Public mailing list for ArchLinux development
> > Onderwerp: Re: [arch-dev-public] save some kb - ln ;)
> >
> > i've just found some more - part of the extra/science/r pkg
> >
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses/LGPL-2.1
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses/Artistic
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses/GPL-2
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses/BSD
> > /usr/lib/R/share/licenses/LGPL-2
> >
> > should i replace them by symlinks?
> >
>
> Are these links required? The location of these things are just weird, there's no reason to have the datadir inside the libexecdir, there's not a single piece of common software that does this. Logical would be to have the datadir pointing to /usr/share, where the licenses would appear in /usr/share/licenses, in which case they're not needed anymore because they're already there.

Jan again wins this one. This is a really good point, I didn't even
notice that these are in /usr/lib/R/

I agree here. We should switch the datadir to /usr/share and remove
common licenses from the package instead of the symlink.

Thanks Jan for putting us in our place 8)