On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:06:59PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:28:04PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: > > I'm building a package that installs a png in > > /usr/share/pixmaps/foo/bar.png. I couldn't find any reference to solve > > my doubt. If I have only a file, should I put it in /usr/share/pixmaps > > directly and use subdirectories for several pixmaps? Anyway, I see that > > many gnome pixmaps are there and not in a subdir. What should I do? And > > then, is there a policy about it? > > If the package itself is the only thing which is going to use the png > file? If so, it should go in /usr/share/<pkg>/. If it is going to be > more generally used, it should go in /usr/share/pixmaps, as many of > the windows managers don't search whole directory trees for images. I entirely agree. Once I have XF4 official debs out I am going to go on a apopleptic rage of policy updates, and I intend to revisit this pixmap issue, which you brought up long ago. -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion is something left over from the Debian GNU/Linux | infancy of our intelligence; it will branden@debian.org | fade away as we adopt reason and science http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | as our guidelines. -- Bertrand Russell
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