On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +0000, james frize wrote: > I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to > ~/.<packagename>/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the > ~wildcard. Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home directory.
Generally there is a /etc/<package>/whatever file for defaults and any user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to # ~/.whatever/myfile There are many problems with getting a package installer to install files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of is, "which user's directory?" - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213213840.ga32...@enc.com.au
