[Radiance-dev] Re: Radiance in Debian

[Randolph Fritz]

Mmmmm...I'll put forward my suggestion again as probably the best way  
to both satisfy Debian's namespace requirements and keep existing  
scene descriptions--the ".rad" language, really--working.  I'd go for  
putting the binaries in /usr/lib/radiance as a simple way to get them  
out of the main /usr/bin namespace; it is not terribly hard to add  
that to your path and I've been doing something similar for a very  
long time.

Randolph

On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> Well, I'm in a quandary on this, because I don't know how valuable  
> having a Debian package is to the Radiance community relative to  
> breaking most of the existing scene descriptions, if that's what it  
> means.
>
> -Greg
>
>> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
>> Date: October 26, 2007 9:39:53 AM PDT
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> sorry for the late reply, just didn't find the time before.
>>
>>> Having compatibility links as an option during installation is  
>>> fine with
>>> me if it defaults to "yes" or provides a clear explanation of the
>>> pitfalls of not installing the links.  I guess we only need a  
>>> link for
>>> genbox at this point, though I would like to keep "rview" in  
>>> there as
>>> well for consistency with extant documentation.
>>
>> They can't default to yes as they'd be added in automatic testing
>> environments (where all debconf questions are answered with the  
>> default
>> value) and installing the conflicting package could fail then.
>>
>> I'm all open to other suggestions, we should find the final solution
>> within the next months, though.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>> -- 
>> Bernd Zeimetz
>> <bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>
>
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