Re: Please do not hardcode GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN in GNUmakefiles!

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Oct 2008, at 13:16, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > > > To be honest, to make everything work as easily as possible for  
> > > > Joe User,
> we'd need to use FHS as the default layout.  Then everything is
> just in their PATH from the very beginning and that's it.  But our  
> policy is
> to keep the GNUstep filesystem layout as the default layout;

I don't think we have a decided policy on this, just an established  
practice.  Maybe I missed the debate/conlusion?

I certainly don't have clear/strong opinion, but I think on balance,  
my vote would be to have a policy of using the FHS.
However, I feel quite strongly that any change should not break things  
for existing users, so someone updating an existing system would get  
what they are used to, but a new installation from scratch would  
default to using FHS.