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Re: Re : db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 11:00:58AM +0100, Eric Bischoff wrote:
> Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> > The software should be packaged like any
> > other software, I don't see the point in putting it together with
> > scripts and such.
>
> That's my opinion as well, it is the reason why I have been putting
> Mark's scripts (reworked by myself) in a new separate package named
> "docbook-utils". Mark could not do this before because the
> install-catalog script needed to be called very early, and this was
> because the scripts could only work with a merged CATALOG... Now it is
> an option to merge the catalogs, and therefore there's no more need to
> package the scripts along with some other package, and the dependancies
> are clean. (BTW, a strange consequence of the former situation was that
> the uninstalling failed at the end, because install-catalog was removed
> while it was still necessary for the uninstallation. Snake eating its
> tail...)
You might have several catalogs merged in your personal catalog
file. How? You can add a `CATALOG "file.cat"' in it and it will
"automagically" include the other catalog.
Look at "conectiva.cat" in the file I've sent you in the other
message. It solves lots of problems and you don't need to merge an
entire new catalog each time a new release is done. And, besides, you
use the stylesheets catalog with all it's relative paths. It works
wonderfully.
> > There should be some "standard" for directory layout, location of the
> > catalog etc. Wrappers should build upon this common standard. So you
> > could use whichever you want.
>
> That's what I did for Caldera, and I'll keep it unless Debian has
> different names with a clean directory layout too. It would be stupid to
> have only two-letter differences... ;-)
I'm doing some work at Conectiva Linux on that too.
I'm using /usr/lib/sgml and then creating subdirectories with each
stylesheet. It's still a mess, but I'm cleaning it up.
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