Parrot does not respect the standard FHS

[Reini Urban]

2009/1/1 Olivier Duclos <olivier.duclos at gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to make a package of Parrot for ArchLinux and I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Parrot creates many dirs that are not standards :
> /usr/compilers
> /usr/languages
> /usr/runtime
> ... and other non-standard dirs which can be safely removed AFAIK.
>
> Why not putting everything in /usr/lib/parrot/{compilers,languages,runtime} ?
>
> Are those paths subject to change in the 1.0 release ?
>
> Why creating such exotic paths ?
>
> I guess I am not the first one to ask these questions, but I couldn't find anything the wiki/docs/google.
>
> Thanks for you enlightenment.

You can try out the branch pdd30install_stage3 on ArchLinux
if you want to make a package.
Read docs/pdds/draft/pdd30_install.pod
The roadmap is that the next release 0.9.0 will have this fixed.

The relevant ticket plus patch is 56996-fhs-runtime.patch
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=56996
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