I'd like to make Debian packages for ROX-Session and some of the applications that go with it in the ROX desktop environment. See <http://rox.sf.net>. NB there's already a package for ROX-Filer in unstable, which splits up the application into various FHS-compliant locations rather than follow ROX's app dir concept. The problem I have is that I can't decide on a suitable location for a system-wide Apps directory. ROX uses app dirs ie an application is contained entirely within one directory. ROX-Filer can identify when a directory is an application by certain special files inside it, and clicking it runs it (via the AppRun script inside) instead of opening the directory.
So app dirs can go anywhere and still work in ROX-Filer, but usually each user has a ~/Apps. The app dir is an essential part of a ROX application, so dpkg/apt has to be able to install that somewhere, and it doesn't work on a per-user basis, so I need a system-wide version which each user could link into their desktop. I was thinking of something like /usr/share/rox-desktop/Apps (I would probably make a meta-package called rox-desktop anyway, to conveniently install a nice bundle of applications), but that would mean having to move the binaries into /usr/bin and modifying the AppRun scripts because /usr/share is arch-independent. Several ROX developers seem to be rather against that and it would make packaging a little harder. A location within /opt would satisfy both the FHS and the ROX community, but not Debian I think, because I've never known any other package to use it. Someone suggested putting it in /usr/lib. I'm not all that keen, because */lib has become a bit of a dumping ground, but I understand there is precedent with GNUstep. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
