Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/19/1999 10:10:33
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:08:00 +0100 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > > Committed By:	lonhyn
 > > Date:		Fri Nov 19 00:43:21 UTC 1999
 > > 
 > > Update of /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/arch/powerpc
 > > In directory nb00:/tmp/cvs-serv17548
 > > 
 > > Log Message:
 > > Program to convert back and forth between PPM and CHRP boot icon images.
 > > 
 > > Status:
 > > 
 > > Vendor Tag:	lonhyn
 > > Release Tags:	CHRPI-1999-11-18
 > > 		
 > > N syssrc/sys/arch/powerpc/tools/chrpicon/README
 > [...]
 > 
 > This this the rigth place for this kind of thing ? Shouldn't it go in
 > /usr/sbin (or whatever is appropriate) and conditionally build depending
 > on ${MACHINE}, so that man pages are always installed ?
 > see usr.sbin/apm for example ...

Well, I'm on the block for this one, because I'm the one that suggest
he put it there :-)

My thinking was this:

	- Not really appropriate for the base system, since it requires
	  libppm, etc. (i.e. you have to install the PPM stuff from
	  pkgsrc to use it).

	- It's more something that developers might use maybe once in
	  a while to create an ASCII file (which is the CHRP icon
	  format; it's an SGML type) which might then be subsequently
	  checked into the tree.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>