[desktop-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 3

[John Levon]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:05:41PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:

> |     For the purposes of determining candidates for the GNU environment,
> |     the GNU packages of the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory are
> |     considered the authoritative list [2].

What happens if:

1) there is a project that provides conflicting binaries commonly used and
expected, but which is not an official GNU project

or

2) a project providing binaries we ship in /usr/gnu/ secedes from the GNU
project

Presumably, for 1), they'd have to deliver into /usr/sfw/. Which means they'd
have 'g' prefixes or some similar distinction, defeating the purpose of the
exercise.

For 2), which has happened before, what would we do?

I'm a bit concerned that "blessed as a GNU project" is an odd match to the
desired features of /usr/gnu/.

regards
john