[fink-core] [Fwd: Re: [Fink-devel] Is /sw/Library an acceptable top-level directory?]

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Didn't want to crosspost.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Fink-devel] Is /sw/Library an acceptable top-level 
directory?
Date: 	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:25:20 -0400
From: 	Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...>
To: 	Thomas Kho <tk...@to...>
CC: 	fin...@li...
References: 	<363...@ma...>



Thomas Kho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on updating r-base to a recent release (2.7.0) and ran
> across a validation error because it (like the current version in
> fink) installs most of its files under /sw/Library/Frameworks.
> AquaTerm is another app that puts files there. If I add Library to the
> list of "good directories", the package builds and validates, no
> problem.
>
> Is /sw/Library an acceptable place to put R, or should go somewhere else?
>
> -Tom
>
> --- /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm.orig	2008-04-25 18:48:22.000000000 -0700
> +++ /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm	2008-04-25 18:48:39.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@
>  	# these are used in a regex and are automatically prepended with ^
>  	# make sure to protect regex metachars!
>  	my @bad_dirs = ("$basepath/src/", "$basepath/man/",
> "$basepath/info/", "$basepath/doc/", "$basepath/libexec/",
> "$basepath/lib/locale/", ".*/CVS/", ".*/RCS/", '.*/\.svn/');
> -	my @good_dirs = ( map "$basepath/$_", qw/ bin sbin include lib share
> var etc src Applications / );
> +	my @good_dirs = ( map "$basepath/$_", qw/ bin sbin include lib share
> var etc src Applications Library / );
>  	push(@good_dirs, '/usr/X11');
>
>  	my @found_bad_dir;
>
>   
Good question.  I'd be inclined to argue that /%p/Library/Frameworks 
should be OK, based on the fact that AquaTerm already does that.