Hi,
>>"Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcelo> What I mean here is that moving things from one directory
Marcelo> (/usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/whatever) to another
Marcelo> (/usr/share) calls for lots of symlinks for backwards
Marcelo> compatibility, in order to avoid breaking installed
Marcelo> packages.
Only if other packages are supposed to access the data
directly (Perl, et al). If the info.txt files from angband went from
/usr/lib to /usr/share, noone shall be the wiser.
Also, note that we acoomplished the emacsen switch (elisp
files moved from /usr/lib to /usr/share) without general mayhem
Marcelo> You have a point, this is not as bad as the glib2 thing.
Marcelo> Ok, I overstated the situation. It's not
Marcelo> incompatibility. It's more like chaos.
Oh, I think it is not as bad as all that. It is easy enough to
decide on a package by package basis what should go into /usr/share,
and what into /usr/lib. It shan't be hard at all if we all play the
tune ...
Marcelo> That part ("distributor's discretion") doesn't play well
Marcelo> with the LSB thing, tough. Am I making a point? I don't
Marcelo> think so... afterall, this is not what I was asking in the
Marcelo> first place... or was it? ;-)
;-)
manoj
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