Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data
On 20-Nov-05, 05:13 (CST), Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> When doing research about circular-deps, I looked at a lot of packages
> that are split between a binary package and a data package. This is a
> good thing since this reduce the total siez of the archive, however
> there are simple rules that should be followed:
>
> [*snip* good rules}
>
> 5) Of course move /usr/share/pkg to pkg-data.
>
Why? If I install foo, I really expect it's shared data to be in
/usr/share/foo.
Steve
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