I have been using /usr/share for some time now in all my packages, including ones that were in the slink, release.
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 04:31:31PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Could sbdy explain me why? > > Why would I need to share this static data among several machines? This > might mave been a concern when dskspace where a problem... Think that this > breaks the idea of a packaging system too. > > And because this breaks the idea of a packaging system (the packaging > system isn't designed fot this setup), /usr/share is designed for special > multi-arch custom setups. I think that the whole distribution doesn't need to > go under this traumatic change just for that. These custom setups coud just > link /usr/doc to a shareable place. > > Don't you realize that is bad for Debian to do such a major change? We are > doing major changes every single release! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.terminus.cicat.com Programmer/Systems Administrator CICAT Networks 9900 Main Street, Suite 301 Fairfax, VA 22031 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cicat.com/ "People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly."
