Re: [Mentalunix-developers] Mpkg specs stuff

[The_Micea <las...@ad...>]

Ive found that most programs install in /usr/bin.   I only have one program
in /usr/local/bin and that is Aol Instant Messenger.     I agree with the
xml.  Its makes things simpler.

> 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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