[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

[Travis Willard]

On Jan 4, 2008 2:14 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at 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.
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