Re: [Mentalunix-developers] Mpkg specs stuff

[Clinton E. <men...@cr...>]

Well, since the packages will be for a standard system install...most 
people excpect system wide binaries in /usr/bin. /usr/bin is supposed 
to be for network wide programs, so during the initial install all 
programs will use /usr/bin etc, but in the mpkg.conf file, there will 
probably be a line similar to this:

<pkg_root>/usr/local</pkg_root>

So, that could change the package root from /usr to /usr/local(but 
the config_root would be a different field, so that would need to be 
changed). Oh yeah, and all mentalinux app config file need to be in 
xml, because it keeps us from having to write the parser(or rather, 
the error detection part) -- we need to find a validating parser to 
parse them though(libxml is non-validating IIRC). XML is nice because 
you just write a DTD, and the validating parser makes sure the file 
follows the rules for XML, and your syntax, so you have to do no 
error checking(except if you are using a non-validating parser, which 
doesn't check your DTD).

On 29 Jan 2001, at 11:07, Knie Dustin wrote:

> since im at school, ill keep this short,  ill respond
> more later!
> 
> the only thing that really stuck out to me was the
> binary install stuff.  personally, i feel that we
> should use /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin
> 
> thats all for now!
> 
> Dustin
> 
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