[Slackbuilds-users] Two problems writing SlackBuild for mendeley-desktop

[Grissiom]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 09:39, Alan Hicks <alan at lizella.net> wrote:

> Apologies Grissiom, if you're on our mailing list and receive this
> message twice.
>
>
Actually I'm on the mailing list but doesn't receive it twice. Hmm, maybe
GMail can remove duplicated mail automatically?


>  On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:27:27 +0800
> Grissiom <chaos.proton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm writing a SlackBuild for Mendeley Desktop
> > ( http://www.mendeley.com ), which is a research paper management
> > tool. But I found two problems there.
> >
> > 1, It's a proprietary software, although you can use for free(free
> > beer but not free speech) as long as you agree with it's 'terms and
> > conditions'. Is it enough that I notice it in the README and let
> > users be aware of it?
>
> That should be fine.  Put it at the top of the README as it's own
> sentence/paragraph all by itself so it stands out and I don't think
> anyone will mind.  The software may well be proprietary, but we're only
> distributing build scripts, not the software or the source code, so
> we're not really covered by whatever license that software is under.
>
>
Yup, thanks for explanations. Then I know what should I do now.


>  > 2, It seems that the package have to make a /share directory. As it
> > lays in the very root, I doubt whether it is something that a
> > user-space package should do. I know I can link /share to /usr/share
> > and pull things there. But we will have a /share eventually.
>
> Now that's ugly as sin in Sunday School.  Are you absolutely certain
> that things have to be placed in /share?  I'm thinking that this
> software may most properly be placed (nearly) completely under /opt
> such as is done with openoffice.org.  If it absolutely has to go
> under /share, I guess that's something the admins will have to
> consider.  To the best of my knowledge, no software build script has
> ever required the creation of a new top-level directory.
>
>
Oops, sorry for disturbing. It's my fault. Everything would work fine when
placed under /usr(including the share folder). So there is no problem now
;-) Thanks for your explanation.

-- 
Cheers,
Grissiom
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