From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5539 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2011 13:03:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 5398 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Nov 2011 13:02:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:02:06 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id E26802C0485; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 14:02:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:03:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] astrometry.net-0.38-1 Message-ID: <20111103130203.GG9159@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4E8C7F4E.3080002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4E94181D.1090600@gmail.com> <4E9DEBC6.5050504@cornell.edu> <20111103120238.GB12413@calimero.vinschen.de> <4EB28F30.6000808@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EB28F30.6000808@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Nov 3 08:55, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/3/2011 8:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I hoped that somebody who voted on the package would do the final > >GTG, but in vain it seems. > > Sorry...I had intended to, but got swamped with other stuff. :-( > > >Anyway, I just had a look. The packaging now looks basically good. One > >issue I still have with the package is the big number of non-standard > >binaries in /usr/bin. > > > >Is it really necessary to have all the binaries as user-accessible > >binaries in /usr/bin? Or are many of the binaries just called from > >another (or other) binaries which serve as the primary UI? What also > >bugs me are the generic names of the binaries. Plotstuff, merge-index, > >tablist, tabsort, checktree, ... This all sounds not much like > >astronomer stuff. > >So, I would prefer to split the binaries into two groups: > > > >- UI binary (or binaries) into /usr/bin > > > >- Helper binaries into /usr/share/astrometry/bin > > FHS says that architecture-dependent files should go under /usr/lib/ > not /usr/share...so > > /usr/lib/astrometry/bin Uh, yes, indeed. Thanks for spotting that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat