[Gnumed-devel] Re: Packaging (was: Naming convention)

[Jim Busser]

On 8-Sep-09, at 5:28 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > > 4. there exist also in the tarball files that seem optional:
> > >
> > >         egk+kvk-demon.conf.example
> > >         gnumed-client-init_script.sh
> > >
> > >         ... shall we relocate within the tarball, outside client
> > >         ... either into external-tools or (if that is not suitable)
>
> Done. At least for the script.

When there are optional things but which apply only to certain regions  
or countries (but they are unrelated to translations) I am wondering  
some more fine-grained way than to just dump everything into

        external-tools

So if the egk stuff is considered an "external-tool" -- yet relevant  
really only to Germany until someone would adapt it for use in other  
countries -- could we upstream do

        external-tools/de/

And if on the other hand we offered users resources that were not  
really external tools (rather, they were internal to gnumed but still  
region-specific) might we put *those* in a new tarball directory

        optional

 and within that (e.g.)

        optional/de (when country specific, else)
        optional/misc

It would help the downstream packagers to leave out of focus those  
things that can cleanly be moved out of /client/ (for standard installs)