[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: evening courses

Hubert Chan hubert at uhoreg.ca
Thu Sep 1 19:56:29 UTC 2005


On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:45:35 +0300 (EEST), Yavor Doganov said:

> * Hubert Chan <hubert-5ZiJYTUkDlj3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> writes:
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:25:51 +0200, Gürkan Sengün said:
>> 
>> > I don't think /usr/lib/gnustep is good. It's really GNUstep.  If
>> you > can find out why it was suggested we could discuss it.
>> 
>> I'll try to locate the mail in which it was brought up.  IIRC, it was
>> only mentioned once, and briefly.  I may be mistaken, though; there
>> are several other packages that have mixed-case directories in
>> /usr/lib (e.g. AbiWord, to pick the first that shows up on my
>> system).

> It was in Ola Lundqvist's reply to Eric's message on -policy:

> |The only thing that can be argued is that the name maybe should be
> |without capital letters, but I do not think that is very important.

Thanks for finding that.  Given that other directories in /usr/lib have
capital letters, and I don't think that the FHS actually forbids that,
I'll try to make the transition work with keeping /usr/lib/GNUstep as
the root.

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