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A place to figure out how the Pd-related packages for Debian/Ubuntu should be structured.

= example problems to address =

 *a package only compatible with '''puredata''': if '''puredata''' is at version 0.42.5 and pdextended and desiredata are not at 0.42.5 yet, then there would be an incompatibility in the externals 

= possible packages =

 pd:: virtual package for libraries to depend on and Pd packages to ''Provide''
 pd-common:: MIME type, `pdsend`/`pdreceive`
 puredata:: package for Pd vanilla, the code from Miller
 pdextended:: package for the core of Pd-extended, with the libraries separately packaged
 desiredata:: package for the core of desiredata, with the libraries separately packaged
 pdanywhere:: package for the core of pdanywhere (PDa), with the libraries separately packaged
 pd-zexy:: packaged library, built against '''puredata''', compatible with anything that provides '''pd'''
 puredata-foo:: packaged library, built against '''puredata''', compatible with only '''puredata'''
 pdextended-bar:: packaged library, built against '''pdextended''', compatible with only '''pdextended'''
 desiredata-foobar:: packaged library, built against '''desiredata''', compatible with only '''desiredata'''
 pdanywhere-foobar:: packaged library, built against '''pdanywhere''', compatible with only '''pdanywhere'''

= /usr/lib directories for each package =

 1. a /usr/lib directory for objects that work for everything that provides 'pd'
 2. a /usr/lib directory for objects that work only for 'puredata'
 3. a /usr/lib directory for objects that work only for 'pd-extended'
 4. etc.

= discussions =

 *|PD-dev| adding standard install paths to the 'puredata' package ([http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2009-11/014473.html first email]) ([http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2009-12/014482.html rest of thread])
 *[http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2009-05/013571.html |PD-dev| packaging pd and friends]

= TODO =
 *make Help Browser build structure based on libs anywhere in the path.  Then the /usr/lib/pd, /usr/lib/puredata, etc. structure can work seemlessly.
 *make pd-common