Re: [rox-devel] Time for a ROX Written Standard?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:09:32PM +0200, Jan Wagemakers wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 
>  > All good points - I've added an 'Application Directories' page to the
>  > web-site with them on it:
>  >      http://rox.sourceforge.net/appdirs.php3
> Well, I mis something in your text about Application Directories. What about
> programs that depends on libraries? How do you install them by making use of
> Application Directories?

The library could be supplied in a directory of its own (which you drag to
/usr/lib to install). There are probably various issues to work out with
that, though.

For now, I plan to concentrate on the simpler problem of making
applications easy to install (although apps often depend on libraries, the
library is not usually part of the application).

> The reason why I ask this is because I really like the Debian Packaging
> system. When I want to install a program I just type
> 
>         apt-get install program
> 
> when this program depends on other files (libraries) these files will
> also get installed. When I want to remove the program I just type :
> 
>         apt-get remove program
> 
> Simple!

Yep, Debian handles all the dependancies for you. Hopefully, many of the
ROX apps will end up in the Debian system. However, apt-get install is no
use if you don't have root access!

Hmm... I wonder how much faster dpkg would be if everything was
self-contained... that's got to make checking for conflicts easier!

> But when we make use of appdirs, how do we automate the installation of other
> necessary files? Is the concept of seperating libraries and program-files
> still useable with Application Directories?

Libraries certainly should be separate. I'd keep the current system for
now, and just accept that installing libraries will be harder than
installing applications :-/


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