[Vectorlinux-devel] Packaging Standards Redux

[<joh...@gm...>]

Some programs create their configuration files in an etc directory. I have 
seen some packages where such an etc directory was a subdirectory under /usr 
or /usr/X11R6. Since we are discussing standards for building packages with 
VL6, I believe that one of the arguments that should be passed to just about 
all configure scripts is --sysconfdir=/etc as opposed to letting the 
sysconfdir setting default to a sub under --prefix=/usr.

While I'm on this thread, some programs also create local data, notably dbus, 
hal, and samba, among others. I want to propose that we explicitly pass 
--localstatedir=/var to the configure script for such programs where local 
state data is created.

Thoughts on these ideas, please.

Thanks,
John