On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Patrick MONNERAT<pm(a)datasphere.ch> wrote:
I'm currently packaging some PHP classes: if I follow the
packaging
guideline at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:PHP#File_Placement,
class files should appear directly in /usr/share/php, not in an
extension-specific sub-directory.
This seems rather rude: this rule will sooner or later cause name
collision between files from packages and the directory will grow up to
a mess very fast.
Would it be possible to alter this rule to allow package-specific
sub-directories ? I know some packages go already this way (is it by
special authorization?).
Maybe my understanding of this simple rule is too strict. In this case,
I think it should be stated in more permissive terms.
You're supposed to be using subdirectories under /usr/share/php. Look
at the php-Smarty package as an example, it was the first package to
use this directory and I was the one who pushed to create this
directory for other packages. The guidelines just need to be
re-worded.
Regards,
Chris