On 5/20/11 8:17 AM, Petr Sabata wrote:
> #1, aka the Gentoo way
> Gentoo installs its 9base package into /usr/plan9, basically not touching
> 9base files at all. This collides with FHS and therefore would require an
> exception in Packaging Guidelines.
>
> #2, aka the Debian way
> Debian installs its 9base package into /usr/lib. Well, most of it. They
> also prefix all the manpages with 'plan9-', not the binaries, though.
> This placement (provided we use %{_libdir}) introduces issues for Plan
> 9 rc shell scripts and their shebangs.
>
> #3, aka the Fedora way?
> Should we do this in some other way?
>
> I personally like the #1 better since it's more clean (except for the required
> FHS exception) and more or less aligned with upstream.
Yeah, #1 sounds less awful.
The other option is /opt/plan9, which might be more in the spirit of
what the FHS says, but the packaging guidelines currently don't mention
/opt at all.
- ajax
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