[ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:

> Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> | PS: By the way I vote for the /opt/gnome2 hirarchy for this package.
>
> As I've stated already, this is also my opinion.
>
> To make this easier for Gerrit to decide, I've written the attached
> scripts which should be included in the glib2 package.  The scripts
> glib2.sh and .csh are to be installed in /etc/profile.d and add
> /opt/gnome2 to all path variables that I could think of.  The
> postinstall.sh adds /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal to the aclocal dirlist,
> for easier aclocal & autoreconf jobs.

I insist it's a bad idea to not install in /usr something that 
isn't only used by GNOME, doesn't depend on any GNOME 
libraries, and will likely be used by the next Midnight 
Commander (which is part of Cygwin) build. GLib is also used by 
many other projects which aren't part of Cygwin, including 
irssi, a CLI IRC client.

I'd like to know why some people want it in /opt or whatever.

Actually, GLib is like audiofile, libxml, libxslt, etc, which 
are in /usr. I also think all Linux distributions install it in 
/usr.

IMO, /opt or whatever should only be used for real GNOME 
packages.

It's such things that makes some people think GLib is a GNOME 
or graphical library and should be avoided at all.

That's all.

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