steve wrote:
Hi Lyos,
Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
Question... where would such content be installed?
In the users ~/music , ~/video, etc? or a system-wide location?
I was thinking of doing it in a system-wide location (same as the
documentation content, ie: /usr/share/{music,video,books,doc}/) ...but
that's just me. Maybe if there is real interest in doing this, we
could come up with a content packaging guideline of some sort.
I don't know about your system... but my system already has 349 folders
in /usr/share ... which would likely be overwhelming to John Q Public.
I'd suggest a different, perhaps dedicated, location if it is to be
system-wide.
Seem, to me, like such content should be installed as a user, not root
(ie., seemingly impossible with yum), because not every user on a
given system will want said content.
Same holds true for a lot of already packaged content (fonts, images,
docs ...etc).
The difference, I suspect, is context. Fonts are meant to be used by
many different programs.
Images could be background, icons, startup, etc.
CC content could be more accurately likened to that of a bookshelf (in
the case of ebooks), or a library, of sorts.
Both are technically *content*... but the CC content you mention has a
*vastly* different *context* from that of
fonts, images or docs.
Yes ! I do think, having a separate repo would be a good thing.
Having it Fedora endorsed, might need consideration and a nod by the
FESCo, though I think I'll start working on creating a yum repo and
some packages with the cc content I have.
regards,
- steve
In this case, I happen to agree, though I question the use of yum to
provide such content (see above).
I think yum would be good, because it already provides a the
capabilities to track (cc content could be upgraded too -- for
example, the lld editions), search (...the rpm headers), arrange in
groups (for example all works by certain artist) and manage (if you
are like me, you can pretty soon lose track of where you downloaded
stuff, not so with files that a package provide) your collections.
The other advantage of course is having a repo would imply the ability
to browse through the content. I am thinking we can do for content
what rpm did for software.
True enough... though i still think it should be user controlled rather
than root-controlled.
Perhaps a version of yum could be modified to allow users to install
such content without
elevated privileges (provided, of course, that it only affects that one
user)?
Lyos Gemini Norezel
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