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Re: [PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option


On Dec 15 07:38, Christian Franke wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >>Many -src packages install files in /usr/src which have no
> >>PACKAGE[-VERSION] prefix or substring in file name. This makes it
> >>difficult to maintain or cleanup larger /usr/src directories.
> >>
> >>The attached experimental patch for setup.exe adds option  -e,
> >>--separate-src-dirs. If specified, each PACKAGE-VERSION-src.tar.bz2 is
> >>installed below /usr/src/PACKAGE-VERSION instead.
> >If this is really desirable behavior then shouldn't we ask package
> >maintainers to fix their packages?  I don't see why setup.exe should
> >have to know about this.
> >
> 
> The patch is a pragmatic approach which works with all existing
> packages. It doesn't break anything existing. It would last long
> time until all src tarballs would be fixed.
> 
> It is actually difficult to guess the origin of some source files.
> For example:
> 
> /usr/src/0.19-data-auto-imports.patch (from flexdll-0.26-1)
> /usr/src/blacklist.txt (from ca-cerficates-*)
> /usr/src/config-rpath.patch (from some gcc-* ?)

I'm wondering if what you did in your patch shouldn't be just the
default behaviour.  No -e option.


Corinna

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