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On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 22:09 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Until we get the 'puredata' package installing its extra stuff in a separate dir from /usr/lib/pd, then its tricky to make 'pdextended' use /usr/lib/pd. But once that's separated, its easy.
hmm, i'm not sure i fully understand the need.
- - external-packages (e.g. pd-wiimote), have to install somewhere, the obvious place would be /usr/lib/pd/extra (for both puredata and pdx)
- - "puredata" provides almost no externals (and they could be factored out into separate packages): expr~, fiddle~/sigmund~, pd~,... (~10)
so what's the bug advantage, if "puredata" installs into /usr/lib/puredata and also searches /usr/lib/pd/extra (since /usr/lib/puredata/extra is virtually empty)?
with pdx it is (currently) a bit different as it comes with so many externals, and we want to avoid conflicts with pd-externals (and simil.)
installing to .../puredata has the theoretical advantage of allowing to install externals that are known to not work with PdX, and thus won't interfere, if PdX was looking in /usr/lib/pd/.
i think this is rather theoretical (currently i don't know of any such external), but at least it allows for this possibility.
thus it's probably more "elegant" and "cleaner". is it worth the effort?
mfgas.r IOhannes
PS: sorry if i started a new thread for an already existing one; it's actually a reply to a private email from roman, turned into pd-dev