Re: category

[email protected] (Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:25:24PM +0200):
> > [email protected] writes:
> > > Due time, I had same problems with mysql - it is web 
> application
> > > (because I use it only in this way) or data/mysql (which I
> > > choosed after some time) ? Where should X and WindowMaker 
> go ? I
> > > created gui category.
> [...] What I was talking about is, that I may put windowmaker 
> in gui, but somebody other put it into sys. And now, if third 
> package cannot exactly say, where it should look for libwraster 
> library (provided by windowmaker).

You should _register_ windowmaker as gui/windowmaker _or_ use it as
host/localhost/gui/windowmaker. And the other one may use
host/localhost/sys/windowmaker, but this is local packages which does
not have a _global_ name!
> There is not simply and allways_right way to specify category - 
> unless author says where it is. But I have never seen note about 
> slashpackage on sites like php.net.

Well /package is newer than php.net AFAIK.

As long as the original author does not support /package, I suggest
the usage of prefixes and suffixes, e.g. use
gui/ORIGINALAUTHOR-windowmaker-installer for the implementation,
gui/windowmaker for a virtual package,
gui/windowmaker-docvirtual for a description of the gcd of it.

If the original author starts to support /package the installer is
obsoleted and its suffix should be dropped. But still the global
name gui/windowmaker points to a working set of commands.

-- 
Stefan Karrmann

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