On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 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.

Woudn't a package make more sense in that case?

Take care,

Bill