OSH (Oil Shell) Now Available In AUR

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OSH (Oil Shell) Now Available In AUR ☶ release unix aur.archlinux.org
authored by timetoplatypus 6 years ago | archive
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Please message me if you encounter an issue building/installing OSH from the AUR.

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  luchs 6 years ago | link
  
  Why are you installing to /usr/local? Packages are supposed to go to /usr directly.
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    timetoplatypus edited 6 years ago | link
    
    It’s the filesystem location specified in the GNU Coding Standard
    
    Executable programs are installed in one of the following directories.
    
    bindir: The directory for installing executable programs that users can run. This should normally be /usr/local/bin, but write it as $(exec_prefix)/bin.
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      danieldk 6 years ago | link
      
      Packages should never be installed to /usr/local
      
      https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_packaging_standards
      
      Arch users expect packages to install in /usr, so it makes more sense to follow the Arch packaging standards here.
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        timetoplatypus 6 years ago | link
        
        Fair enough, I can make that adjustment. Thanks for sharing that link.
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      tomjakubowski edited 6 years ago | link
      
      GNU expects downstream packagers (“installers”) to change the install location, which is why the prefix variable exists. /usr/local/ is an appropriate default for “from-source” installs, to avoid conflicts with packages.
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  andyc Oil Shell Developer 6 years ago | link
  
  Thanks a lot for doing this! If anyone else needs help packaging it for a distro you use, let me know. And you can add links here:
  
  https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Oil-Deployments

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