Re: [Plib-devel] path for PLIB

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Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Christian Mayer wrote:
> 
> > as the last SuSE (6.4) had PLIb at the wrong place (somewhere below
> > /X11/) I was curious if anything had changed for the yet-to-come 7.0.
> >
> > But it seems that it's still in the wrong place :-(
> 
> What version are they shipping?

They say that they'll ship 7.0 on the 21. August

Their packet description at

http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/Pakete_prof/paket_plib.html

says (it's German):

Autor: Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> 
Copyright: (C) LGPL 
Version: 1.1.11-41 

Platzbedarf:

     /usr: 24 k 
     /usr/X11: 5489 k 
     Gesamtgröße: 5513 k 

[... Needed disk space:

/usr: 24 k
/usr/X11: 5489 k
Total: 5513 k]

> 
> > Shouldn't we talk to them about that?
> 
> I've talked to them before - they have this fixation that
> anything that *uses* X11 should be stored *inside* X11.
> 
> That's just plain silly IMHO - I use lots of other things
> too - but I don't expect to be stored inside their directory
> trees!
> 
>     "uses" != "is_a_part_of"

That's the same as with inheritance of C++ classes...

> Unfortunately, if you've already seen it in 7.0, it's
> probably too late to fix it.  I'll try though.

As I said, it's not out yet (but perhaps already at production)

CU,
Christian