Re: Symlinks from Tools to Applications

[Adam Fedor]

On Feb 17, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> This might sound heretical, but I'd like to make our FHS  
> integration more tight by
> symlinking app binaries from the Tools directory. :-)
>
> In other words, when you install GNUMail.app I'd like to create the  
> symlink
>
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_TOOLS/GNUMail --> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_APPS/GNUMail.app/ 
> {...}/GNUMail

I'd be careful about doing this at least without a way to turn it  
off.  I'm thinking mainly about how different systems package GNUstep  
stuff - such as debian.  They already use a fairly complicated script  
to move around things into the proper FHS/Debian format.  I'm sure  
the recent changes you have made to gnustep-make will simplify this  
for them, but I don't really know how they handle apps.  GNUmail, for  
instance, is already put into /usr/bin,  but I can't really tell from  
the description if it's a link or not.