[Pm-utils] POSIXification of pm-utils

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Sun Jan 13 11:39:36 PST 2008


On Sun January 13 2008, Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2008 12:08 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:

> > I also noticed you changed the location of on_ac_power,  pm-action,
> > pm-is-supported and pm-powersave, maybe you then also want to move the
> > installed pm-action to /usr/lib/libexec/ instead, because afaik this is
> > where executables that are not meant to be executed by a user, should go.
>
> If I changed the location of where things were supposed to go during
> install, it was by accident.  I have less than a days experience
> working with autotools, and the directory hierarchy I got from CVS
> was... interesting. I was forced to do a bit of surgery -- I suspect
> CVS and its horribly broken way of handling anything vaguely involving
> a file or directory move or rename is to blame.

I only meant the rearrangement within CVS. But I thought when you are already 
cleaning up, why not do this for the install paths, too.

> Anyone else think that moving away from CVS for source control is a
> good idea?  I am partial to Mercurial, but any of the modern
> distributed source control systems would be lightyears better than
> CVS.

I would like to have mercurial instead of CVS, too.

Regards,
Till
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