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[Nmh-workers] Directory layouts for example/contrib/doc files
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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[Nmh-workers] Directory layouts for example/contrib/doc files |
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Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:14:51 -0700 |
On Apr 16, 2014, at 7:16 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
> "contrib" came in being because of replyfilter. It sort of sits apart
> from nmh; it's a hack, but a useful one that filled a need (that we
> haven't quite solved natively). It also required functionality that
> nmh had to add. It's a bit of an odd duck, really. Other programs came
> a bit later. The commonality here is that all of these things are simple
> one-file items that it's not worth setting up a distribution for.
On FreeBSD we tend to use /usr/local/share/examples/<package>/ to hold these
sort of files. But the categories get fuzzy, and each OS has its own
convention. On FreeBSD you would likely see:
/usr/local/share/doc/nmh/ doc files
/usr/local/share/examples/nmh/ examples (e.g. contrib stuff)
/usr/local/share/man/ man pages
/usr/local/libexec/nmh/ executables from .../nmh/lib/...
/usr/local/etc/nmh/ config files
/usr/local/bin user commands
Okay, you would if I was setting up the port ;-)
You see the /usr/local/share/examples/<package>/... convention mirrored in a
number of ports, and indeed in the base system (cf. /usr/share/examples/pf/...)
Yes, many FreeBSD ports choose to spam /usr/local/share/<package> directly. I
plan to write a must-have bit of software called 'examples' (or perhaps 'man')
just to make life miserable for everyone ;-)
Anyway, what's my point? On FreeBSD at least (where my part of the
conversation started), the things we put in ./docs/contrib in the nmh source
directory naturally belong in /usr/local/share/examples/nmh/.
--lyndon
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