[Pkg-ROX-devel] /etc/menu-methods/rox-filer

Francesco Paolo Lovergine frankie@debian.org
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 23:22:49 +0200


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:17:30AM +0100, Dennis Tomas wrote:
> 
> I hope you can make any use of the script. It at least would be great to 
> hear what you think of it.
> 

Nice, but the whole thing is not FHS compliant. Indeed, I removed the
entire method for that :-/

> 
> # Command to run at end.
> postrun="mkdir -p /usr/share/apps/Debian ; rm -r /usr/share/apps/Debian ; " \
>         ". /etc/roxmenu ; rm /etc/roxmenu"
> 	

The right thing to do is patching to use a rox specific system directory
for a common Apps dir (such as /usr/share/rox/Apps) and working there only.
Any other path (and the horrible manipulation of /etc subdirs like that
in postrun) is a violation of Debian policy...

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine