From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker (richard@levitte.org)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 20:35:29 CEST
In message <BCF52A4F9264E22A3B716D54@TRABANT.WV.CC.cmu.edu> on Wed, 04 May 2005 14:11:27 -0400, Rudolph T Maceyko <rm55@pobox.com> said:
rm55> --On May 4, 2005 19:53:33 +0200 Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
rm55> <richard@levitte.org> wrote:
rm55>
rm55> > rm55> - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm is a symlink to /etc/X11/twm on
rm55> > RedHat-ish rm55> systems
rm55> >
rm55> > Actually, I want to question this. Should ctwm use /etc/X11/ctwm and
rm55> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ctwm? That way, twm and ctwm can easily live side
rm55> > by side. That's how it's done in Debian...
rm55> >
rm55> > The same goes for the images. On Debian, they are placed in
rm55> > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps...
rm55>
rm55> Makes sense.
OK, and that corresponds to what I implemented.
rm55> > rm55> Question: why is the beta3 part omitted from the version
rm55> > attribute?
rm55> >
rm55> > Because my standard is {major}.{minor}[-{stage}]. RPM doesn't allow
rm55> > dashes in versions. So I made a choice.
rm55>
rm55> I think beta3 (etc.) should be in the RPM version attribute...
rm55> otherwise it's completely unobvious that it's a beta release. This is
rm55> just a different mapping of your "standard" (and one that doesn't
rm55> *lose* information, at that).
But... but, but, but it's *ugly*! :-)
Oh, ok :-).
Cheers,
Richard
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