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