[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep and FHS in Debian (why is it i always want to make fun of such subjects)

[Hubert Chan]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:22:56 +0200, Matthias Klose said:

>> If the consensus is that GNUstep is not, and cannot be made FHS
>> compatible then the policy should be adapted.

> Then please explain, why it's not possible to modify gnustep-make,
> that it places things in a FHS compatible way. The argument that
> applications and bundle have to be in a common directory doesn't
> hold. Packages are managed by dpkg on Debian, you don't "unpack" a
> tarball somewhere.

Applications expect to find their resources in a specific place.  Just
moving the files around will break things, so it would likely involve
more than just a simple modification to gnustep-make.

I hope to take a look at how much we can make the Debian packages FHS
compliant soon.

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