Re: Conversion to /package

Thomas Schwinge <[email protected]> wrote:
> I very much like the way Paul Jarc is doing that in sp-foreign:
> /package/misc/spf/package_name-version/spf holds links to all packages
> that package depends on (although I don't get why the last component of
> the path is called 'spf' and not for example 'depend').

Originally I called it "conf" (since you can reconfigure the links
post-installation), but I thought that might conflict with files
installed by some package.  "spf" seemed less likely to collide.
Something like "spf-conf" or "spf-depend" would have made more sense,
but changing it again now would be painful.

My own packages currently use "spf" too (my gcc wrapper scripts
automatically creates a symlink in that directory pointing to my glibc
installation, and the script adds the appropriate flags to link to
glibc via that symlink), but I'm going to change it to "conf" for
them, since I know it won't collide.  ("spf" is wrong anyway, since
they aren't foreign packages.)


paul